Deploying React Apps to GitHub Pages
Github has this great feature where you can host SPAs (Single Page Applications) for free. You can make calls to firebase, pull in json files and have other external integrations. There are limitations, such as react-router and related packages do not work. But static and relatively simple html, css, and javascript sites can be hosted without issues. So, how do we do this? Well, it's pretty simple. 1. CREATE A GITHUB PROJECT REPOSITORY Once you create a new Github project that will hold your code, you will need the HTTPS or SSH link. You can get this by clicking the Clone or Download" button. Copy that link for step #2. 2. LINK YOUR LOCAL FOLDER TO GITHUB PROJECT REPOSITORY Usually, when working in a group, most companies require an SSH key for linking to Github. Here, we are independent and really only use HTTPS for linking to Github repositories. In case you don't already have GIT For Windows installed, here is the link. This will install all the git comman...