Static hosting: GitHub Pages#

GitHub Pages is a free hosting service that turns your GitHub repository directly into a static website whenever you push it. This is useful for sharing analysis results, data science portfolios, project documentation, and more.

Common Operations:

# Create a new GitHub repo
mkdir my-site
cd my-site
git init

# Add your static content
echo "<h1>My Site</h1>" > index.html

# Push to GitHub
git add .
git commit -m "feat(pages): initial commit"
git push origin main

# Enable GitHub Pages from the main branch on the repo settings page

Best Practices:

1. Keep it small
   • Optimize images. Prefer SVG over WEBP over 8-bit PNG.
   • Preload critical assets like stylesheets
   • Avoid committing large files like datasets, videos, etc. directly. Explore Git LFS instead.

Tools:

• GitHub Desktop: GUI for Git operations
• GitHub CLI: Command line interface
• GitHub Actions: Automation