Hosting a React App for Free using Github Pages

This post was original posted on my personal website. I put together a Youtube tutorial as well.

In this tutorial, I walk you through setting up a simple React.js application that can be hosted on Github Pages. I really like hosting here because it’s free for me personally, and Github handles “server management”. Once I deploy my React app and verify it’s up, Github handles the traffic surges, updates, etc.

I typically use this MERN boilerplate repository repository but it has too much extra stuff specifically for a Node…