javascript - Deploying a React Webpack app (not created with create-react-app) to Github pages

Question

I'm fairly new to the React ecosystem; I've made a simple single page webpage for a tech conference and I want to deploy it to gh-pages.

I know create-react-app has very good documentation on deploying to gh-pages but my app was not made with that. I manually setup all the configurations for Webpack and React, instead of using the react-scripts module that create-react-app uses.

I tried finding some posts about deploying a non-create-react-app to gh-pages but I've had no luck so I was wondering if there's any simple solutions.

My current solution is to just push only the dist folder to the gh-pages and serve that. I wanted to see if there's a simpler way where I can just push the whole dev branch over to gh-pages and be able to serve the correct elements still.

Answer 1

You can push the whole dev branch and select github to display the page from master branch. Make sure that in master branch the scripts are compiled into / (index) of the repository, so your page shows up.