Developing and hosting your own Angular, React applications has never been easier, but now there are many options like Google Firebase, Heroku and etc. Github Pages is offering some great features with free of cost no credit card required and no bandwidth limitations. Just create a public repository and commit all of your product ready files. It has a custom domain support with HTTPs enforcement.
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Create Repository
Create a GitHub repository with your project name.
Master Branch
Master branch with readme file.
Create File
Create a new file directly.
index.html
Create a simple HTML to display a title.
style.css
Styling for H1 tag.
Master branch
Updated master branch
Setting Github Pages
Go to branch settings and scroll bottom, you will find the Github pages.
Domain CNAME Record – WWW
You can map your main domain with CNAME @
Sub Domain CNAME Record
Clone Github Project
Copy Repository URL
Clone Github hosting repository.
Build Project
$git clone https://github.com/username/hosting
$cd hosting
Create an Angular Project
Generate an Angular project using ng command.
$ng new hosting-angular
Build Angular Project
$cd hosting-angular
$ng build –prod
Host Angular Project
Copy past all of the dist directory files into hosting directory. Then execute the following command.
$cd hosting
$git add .
$git commit -m “Angular project”
$git push
Create a React Project
Generate a React project using create-react-app command.
$npx create-react-app hosting-react
Build Project
$cd hosting-react
$npm run build –prod
Host React Project
Copy past all of the build directory files into hosting directory. Then execute the following command.
$cd hosting
$git add .
$git commit -m “React project”
$git push
