Can I Host Multiple Sites with GitHub?

The other day I was looking into hosting websites on GitHub Pages, and I found myself wondering if it’s possible to host multiple custom domains for a single GitHub account. I came to the conclusion that it isn’t possible. You can use one custom domain per account, and that custom domain can effect different types of repositories within your account. For instance, if I used megancoyle.com for my custom domain, it would be the new URL used to access my GitHub site page that was previously accessed via megancoyle.github.io. Then project pages would no longer have the URL megancoyle.github.io/hangman, but would use megancoyle.com/hangman instead.

So if you want to keep your other repos more separate from your personal page, you may want to rethink how you use a custom domain. Or you’ll possibly want to think about how you’d like to brand your different repositories.

Here are a couple of articles that can help you with linking your domains to GitHub Pages:

View at Medium.com

Linking Namecheap to GitHub Pages

Deploying a React App to GitHub Pages

Earlier today, I worked on putting together this Sticky Note App, in an effort to get more comfortable with React.js. The application uses React.js, React DOM, and React Draggable.

After completing my application, I was about to tackle deployment with Heroku, since I’ve become pretty familiar with deploying various applications that consist of different stacks on Heroku.

However, this application was a lot simpler, so it seemed like using Heroku would have been a little excessive, especially since there’s no backend component for this application.

So I decided to tackle deploying the application via GitHub pages – which is already one of my favorite ways to deploy simple applications since I host all my repos there as well.

The first step I did, was use the create-react-app command in my terminal, where I then moved the various components of my simple React application. Then I followed the following steps:

Step 1

Edit package.json by adding a homepage

"homepage": "https://[insert username].github.io/[insert project repo name]"

Step 2

Run npm install --save-dev gh-pages

Step 3

Edit package.json by adding a predeploy and deploy script:

"scripts": {
"predeploy": "npm run build",
"deploy": "gh-pages -d build"
}

Step 4

Run: npm run deploy

And there you have it, a simple enough solution for deploying those simple enough React applications.