I have a very simple GitLab CICD pipeline with build and deploy stages. However, the build artifact is not being retained for deploy, and I cannot figure out how to get the dist directoty to be reatined. YAML is shown below:

stages:          # List of stages for jobs, and their order of execution
  - build
  - test
  - deploy

build:
  image: node
  script:
    - npm install
    - npm run build
    - pwd; ls -latrR dist
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - "dist/"
    expire_in: 1 week

deploy:
  dependencies:
    - "build"
  script:
    - pwd; ls -latrR
    - apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq lftp
    - if [ -d 'dist' ] ; then lftp -c "set ftp:ssl-allow no; open -u $FTP_USERNAME,$FTP_PASSWORD $FTP_HOST; mirror -v dist/ $FTP_DESTINATION --reverse --ignore-time --parallel=10 --exclude-glob .git* --exclude .git/"; else echo "No dist directory"; fi;
  environment:
    name: production
  only:
    - main

The recursive listing and pwd command shows that the dist directory is absent from the deploy stage. This can be shown below from the pipeline output:

$ apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq lftp
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package lftp.
(Reading database ... 23248 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../lftp_4.9.2-2+b1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking lftp (4.9.2-2+b1) ...
Setting up lftp (4.9.2-2+b1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
$ if [ -d 'dist' ] ; then lftp -c "set ftp:ssl-allow no; open -u $FTP_USERNAME,$FTP_PASSWORD $FTP_HOST; mirror -v dist/ $FTP_DESTINATION --reverse --ignore-time --parallel=10 --exclude-glob .git* --exclude .git/"; else echo "No dist directory"; fi;
No dist directory
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:00
Job succeeded

Any assistance would be gratefully received,

Cheers
Andrew