🏃‍♂️Getting started!

Overview

Let's start with an overview of what we are trying to achieve.

Let's check how the landingpage of GitLangind itself is setup.

The code of the website lies on a dedicated branch of the GitLanding repo. The files that are actualy served by GitHub Page lies on the gh_page branch and is put there using this GitHub Action.

Step by step guide

MacOS

Open a new terminal (for example iTerm2 )

# Only if you don't have yarn already 
# (you need https://brew.sh to run the next command)
brew install yarn

#
git clone https://github.com/<user_name>/<project_name> <project_name>_landingpage 
cd <project_name>_landingpage

git checkout --orphan landingpage && git rm -rf .
yarn create react-app . --template gitlanding

git add -A
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push --set-upstream origin landingpage

Windows

If you don't have it already, install Node.js.

Open a Powershell terminal

git clone https://github.com/<user_name>/<project_name> <project_name>_landingpage 
cd <project_name>_landingpage

git checkout --orphan landingpage
git rm -rf .
yarn create react-app . --template gitlanding

git add -A
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push --set-upstream origin landingpage

Ubuntu/Debian

If you don't have the yarn package manager installed allready:

# Using Ubuntu
sudo su
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
# Using Debian
su root
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | bash -
####
apt-get install -y nodejs
npm install -g yarn

Open a new terminal

git clone https://github.com/<user_name>/<project_name> <project_name>_landingpage  
cd <project_name>_landingpage

git checkout --orphan landingpage && git rm -rf .
# If you get: 'yarn: error: no such option: --template' running the following command. It means you have 'yarn' from cmdtest, we need yarn the package manager.
yarn create react-app . --template gitlanding

git add -A
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push --set-upstream origin landingpage

Next you'll have to enable GitHub page in your repo. Navigate to your repository on Github and go to Setting > Pages, then set the gh-pages branch as the branch from witch the site is to be built.

You may need to wait a few minutes for the initial gh-pages branche to be created by your GitHub Action workflow .github/workflows/deploy.yaml

https://github.com/USERNAME/REPO/settings/pages

If all went as expected you page should be up and running

You're now ready to customise your app.