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For static site projects like this, I highly recommend setting up gh-pages or some other static site hosting. It's a lot of effort to expect people to clone the
by wbobeirne 6y ago
For static site projects like this, I highly recommend setting up gh-pages or some other static site hosting. It's a lot of effort to expect people to clone the repo, install the dependencies, and build the project to try it out.
The no-hassle experience of running it is all the fun of building these for the web, after all!
- netgusto 6y agoThey have a link on their GH repo to https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/ https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/
- fireattack 6y ago[SOUND WARNING]
- onion2k 6y agoIf you do this it's worth noting that gh-pages, and Netlify's free tier, and probably others, cap egress bandwidth at 100GB/month. For a project like this one that's fine (it only downloads a few meg) but hitting HN and Reddit could easily burn through all that on a bigger project. If you care about that it's worth using something like Cloudflare as a frontside cache.
- gsnedders 6y agoGitHub Pages only has a soft limit. As their documentation say: > If your site exceeds these usage quotas, we may not be able to serve your site, or you may receive a polite email from GitHub Support or GitHub Premium Support suggesting strategies for reducing your site's impact on our servers, including putting a third-party content distribution network (CDN) in front of your site, making use of other GitHub features such as releases, or moving to a different hosting service that might better fit your needs. I expect one-time hitting front page of HN or Reddit is something they won't frown on too much, whereas constantly hitting that cap on an ongoing basis is going to raise many more eyebrows.
- swiley 6y agoI’m pretty sure GH pages has a fairly low traffic cap.
- deepstack 6y agoI think when you run this using npm, it will also show your local file system. It can be a really nice sftp web front end.