This year I promised myself to create my own webpage. Without thinking twice I decided to host my website at github with some constraints:
- source code should be placed at the same repo
- website should be hosted as user page (from root folder)
Looking for a deploy guide I figured out, that github allows to publish user page only from default branch (master) & doesn't allow to set custom folder as root for deployed website. Ooops 😥
A quick research gave me 3 options:
- deploy website as project (but I wish a pretty url 🥺)
- leave in repo just the final build (and how to deal with the source code?! 🧐)
- move source files to submodules (why so difficult 🙈)
Messing around for a while and almost decided to choose the submodules option, I came across the official guide to deploy create-react-app. Last step reminded to directly setup deploy branch (master in common).
That's it! We could place source code into different branch and use master branch as build folder. So I moved the source code into dev branch & finally deployed my page.
Hope this trick will help you to save couple of hours and deploy your user page without pain😉
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