Build steps

Building

To create a production version of your app:

npm run build

You can preview the production build with npm run preview.

To deploy your app, you may need to install an adapter for your target environment.

Images

The decision to place images in the src/lib/images folder is due to vites adding of hashes to the filename at compile time. The hash is based on image contents so when the file is changed so is the hash, which allows the server to send a very long cache expiration to the browser, so it can cache it forever or until it changes (key-based cache expiration). See a full explanation in the top answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71789244/where-to-put-images-with-sveltekit.