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Dev tools · March 5, 2014

Github Pages

Every Github repo has a secret free website.

Github Pages launched on March 5, 2014 with 98 votes, #131 of 1,224 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

Websites for you and your projects. Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

Websites for you and your projects, hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

Head over to GitHub and create a new public repository named username .github.io, where username is your username (or organization name) on GitHub. If the first part of the repository doesn’t exactly match your username, it won’t work, so make sure to get it right. GitHub Desktop is a great way to use Git and GitHub on macOS and Windows. ~ $ git clone https://github.com/ username / username .github.io Click the "Set up in Desktop" button. When the GitHub desktop app opens, save the project. If the app doesn't open, launch it and clone the repository from the app. After finishing the installation, head back to GitHub.com and refresh the page. Click the "Set up in Desktop" button. When the…from pages.github.com

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