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I have recently published quanticdev.com using only GitHub Pages and markdown and decided to create a guide to preserve this knowledge in the form of a video/ar
by soygul 7y ago
I have recently published quanticdev.com using only GitHub Pages and markdown and decided to create a guide to preserve this knowledge in the form of a video/article so I can reuse it in my future projects. GitHub Pages is a free and a pretty good hosting service. It is an add-on for regular GitHub repositories, and you can host your website as well as code and other things in one repo, which is pretty good. I must warn that GitHub Pages is intended for techies. If you want something much simpler, go with Google Sites, or Blogger.com, or WordPress. In the first part of this video/article, I will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of GitHub Pages. In the second part, I will deploy a brand-new website using GitHub Pages and simple markdown. Everything will be done through GitHub's UI and online code editor. I will also demonstrate a sample React website hosted on GitHub Pages.
* Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhmR3TiGq8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhmR3TiGq8
* Article: https://quanticdev.com/articles/website-with-github-pages https://quanticdev.com/articles/website-with-github-pages (same as above)
Outline of this video/article:
* QuanticDev.com Intro
* Why GitHub Pages
* Advantages
* Disadvantages
* Alternatives
* GitHub Pages Setup & How I Created quanticdev.com
* My Recommendations
* Conclusion
Free website hosting resources:
* GitHub Pages (for techies): https://pages.github.com https://pages.github.com
* Supports Jekyll: https://jekyllrb.com
* Supports Static HTML + CSS + JavaScript
* Supports React and others: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/deployment/#github-pages
* Google Sites (non-techies): https://sites.google.com https://sites.google.com
* Alternatives for Bloggers
* Blogger (basic): https://blogger.com
* WordPress (more advanced): https://wordpress.com
* Alternatives for Programmers
* Heroku: https://www.heroku.com
* Firebase: https://firebase.google.com