Did you know that GitHub has this thing called "GitHub Pages"? I had heard about it in passing before but recently heard about it again from my coding bootcamp as a resources to post a website. I like this idea. I am already using GitHub as a source to hold code in general so why not a website about the code I am working on, right?

Getting Started

So, getting started was a bit confusing for me because I had not worked on GitHub in a while.

Clearly my GitHub green boxes are lacking but that is about to change.

It is really as simple as creating a repository with your username and "github.io" like "username.github.io". I didn't do anything specific outside of this. I didn't even create a README originally just to see how it worked, but added one later.

Once the page is setup you just clone it to your computer with the standard

git clone https://github.com/username/username.github.io

and then create an index page. I did mine in the terminal via these two commands :

cd username.github.io
echo "Hello World" > index.html

Once the page is in your folder via the next 3 commands:

git add --all
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push -u origin master

I Had issues here....

For me this didn't quite go as smoothly on my computer side of things... I ended up going I ended up needing to do a few more commands on my computer.
I had to remotely add the origin via

git remote add origin git@github.com:caffiendkitten/caffiendkitten.github.io.git

and that worked enough for me. I was then able to open it up in my VSCode and start coding.

And here is

Now it's time to start working on things and uploading information.

NOTE:: The time between pushing code and the site updating is a bit laggy so be patient with it.

Happy Hacking

References

1. https://pages.github.com/

Please Note that I am still learning. If something that I have stated is incorrect please let me know. I would love to learn more about what I may not understand fully.