Minimal GitHub Pages Deployment with GitHub Actions

2025-03-20
Minimal GitHub Pages Deployment with GitHub Actions

This post details a minimal approach to building and deploying a fully custom website using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages. By enabling GitHub Pages, creating a YAML workflow file (publish.yml) with build and deployment steps, and placing the generated site files in the `_site/` directory, you can easily deploy static websites. This simple method allows for creating more complex features using scheduled workflows and Git scraping, such as publishing Atom feeds or custom websites, without extensive configuration.