Deploy NextJS app to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions

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  • github-pages-deploy-action

    🚀 Automatically deploy your project to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions. This action can be configured to push your production-ready code into any branch you'd like.

  • github-pages-deploy-action is used to push a static exported site to gh-pages branch.

  • Check out a repository with an example application of NextJS app built with described GitHub Action that is hosted right here.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Gatsby

    The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.

  • Now we can serve a static website on free hosting with automated deployment on push to main. Https is provided by GitHub Pages. The only cost is custom domain (if we want to). Other static site generators like Gatsby, Jekyll, or Hugo (on almost every website you can read that their framework is the fastest one) can be used with GitHub Pages and Actions almost the same way as NextJS.

  • Jekyll

    :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

  • Now we can serve a static website on free hosting with automated deployment on push to main. Https is provided by GitHub Pages. The only cost is custom domain (if we want to). Other static site generators like Gatsby, Jekyll, or Hugo (on almost every website you can read that their framework is the fastest one) can be used with GitHub Pages and Actions almost the same way as NextJS.

  • Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  • Now we can serve a static website on free hosting with automated deployment on push to main. Https is provided by GitHub Pages. The only cost is custom domain (if we want to). Other static site generators like Gatsby, Jekyll, or Hugo (on almost every website you can read that their framework is the fastest one) can be used with GitHub Pages and Actions almost the same way as NextJS.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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