Getting started with GitHub Pages

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Requirements

A GitHub account (free)
A domain name for your website, or you can use the default domain name of GitHub
- youraccount.github.io
A template website to upload to your domain name
Some basic knowledge about websites and DNS

What is GitHub Pages?

GitHub Pages allows you to host a static website directly from a GitHub repository. This can be done without managing a server, infrastructure, or hosting provider. The only thing you do is create a repository, upload a website, and optionally connect it to a domain name of your choice. We can compare this to Azure Static Web Apps if you are familiar with that.

Upload multiple Github repositories into a single Azure Static Web App

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In this guide, I will describe how I now host multiple Github applications/tools into one single Static Web App environment in Azure. This mostly captures the simple, single task, tools which can be found on my website:

https://justinverstijnen.nl/tools or jvapp.nl if you need a shortcut.

Because I started with a single tool, then built another and another and another one, I needed a sort of scalable way of doing this. Each tool means doing the following stuff:

Github on justinverstijnen.nl

Getting started with GitHub Pages

Requirements

What is GitHub Pages?

Upload multiple Github repositories into a single Azure Static Web App