Next.js gh-pages Hello World example

This repository is a gh-pages example built with Next.js

https://thierryc.github.io/Next-gh-page-example/

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

Deploy it to github

Edit env-config.js and replace 'Next-gh-page-example' by your project name.

Edit next.config.js and replace 'Next-gh-page-example' by your project name.

1. Create repository.
2. Link it to your github account.
3. Publish your master branch.

npm run deploy

Test it:

Replace 'github-user-name' and 'github-project-name'

https://github-user-name.github.io/github-project-name/

Custom domain setting

You can add on to the deploy command to create the CNAME file for you. GitHub detects this file and automatically updates the custom domain setting. Edit the package.json deploy script and replace example.com with your custom domain. (Thank you to @jabacchetta)

rm -rf node_modules/.cache 
&& rimraf out 
&& next build 
&& next export 
&& touch out/.nojekyll 
&& touch out/CNAME
&& echo \"example.com\" >> out/CNAME
&& gh-pages -d out

Example:

https://github.com/thierryc/Next-gh-page-example/

https://thierryc.github.io/Next-gh-page-example/

The idea behind the example

This example shows the most basic idea behind Next. We have 2 pages: pages/index.js and pages/about.js. The former responds to / requests and the latter to /about. Using next/link you can add hyperlinks between them with universal routing capabilities.