This blog is created using Jekyll, hosted on GitHub using GitHub Pages.

GitHub Pages are hosted directly from your repository, providing a very easy way to serve simple sites at zero cost. It’s very easy to set up, just create a repository called username.github.io, create a basic index.html page and once pushed to your repository your new page will be live at https://username.github.io, nice and easy!

Jekyll

GitHub Pages has builtin support for Jekyll, the static site generator, giving you a very easy way to set up a blog. A nice easy way to get started with GitHub Pages and Jekyll is to use a starting point like Jekyll Now, created by Barry Clark. Also, see this Smashing Magazine article for a more detailed walkthrough.

Project Sites

As well as the GitHub user page, you can also create project pages for your individual repositories. This gives you a very easy way to serve up a Single Page App, using GitHub Pages. A Project Site can be published from the master branch, a docs folder within the master branch, or a gh-pages branch, and once built will be available at https://username.github.io/project-name. An example of a project page is the React Single Page App Bulletin-Board published from the gh-pages branch of the Bulletin-Board repository.

gh-pages package

The gh-pages package gives you an easy way to update your project site from your latest build. Simply install the package:

npm i -D gh-pages

Then add a package script with your build directory:

"scripts": {
    "deploy": "gh-pages -d build"
}

Now running npm run deploy will publish everything from your build folder to the gh-pages branch.