So I made a Typescript project with Visual Studio. It works fine when I launch it with Visual Studio, but if I try to push it to my GitHub Pages site, it will put the index.html in a subfolder and I get a 404 error when I try to load my website. Even if I try to reference the index.html in the website url it doesn't really work.

I was wondering if it's possible to only publish the needed items. I think I would only need the subfolder. Correct me if I am wrong though.

Note: I have the GitHub extension for Visual Studio installed.

UPDATE:

Since some of the links don't seem to work anymore I think I should give some extra information. So basically you need to have a branch named gh-pages. On that branch you need to have an index.html file in your root folder. Then the index.html file should be visible on the github page URL.

So I made a Typescript project with Visual Studio. It works fine when I launch it with Visual Studio, but if I try to push it to my GitHub Pages site, it will put the index.html in a subfolder and I get a 404 error when I try to load my website. Even if I try to reference the index.html in the website url it doesn't really work.

I was wondering if it's possible to only publish the needed items. I think I would only need the subfolder. Correct me if I am wrong though.

Note: I have the GitHub extension for Visual Studio installed.

UPDATE:

Since some of the links don't seem to work anymore I think I should give some extra information. So basically you need to have a branch named gh-pages. On that branch you need to have an index.html file in your root folder. Then the index.html file should be visible on the github page URL.

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• It would be useful if you gave some context about how you attempt to publish, showing the specific mands you run, their output etc. – Martin Commented Mar 20, 2016 at 8:44

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You need to push a branch named gh-pages in order to view it as a website.

Create a new branch and then move the file into the root folder of the branch, upload it to the gh-pages and you set to go.

Check this out:

https://github./nirgeier/JimVliet.github.io/tree/gh-pages

This is how your file should be inside your root folder.

I wanted the main branch to be the one deployed to GitHub pages, every time I push to main, so I made an Action for this. I made it for vanilla TypeScript projects (no web frameworks).

I bined the static content action and since for npx tsc I needed node, the NextJS action, where I replaced the NextJS build step with:

- name: Build with Typescript
        run: npx tsc

Put it in .github/workflows as main.yml

# Simple workflow for deploying static content to GitHub Pages
name: Deploy static content to Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
      
# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to plete.
concurrency:
  group: "pages"
  cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Detect package manager
        id: detect-package-manager
        run: |
          if [ -f "${{ github.workspace }}/yarn.lock" ]; then
            echo "manager=yarn" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            echo "mand=install" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            exit 0
          elif [ -f "${{ github.workspace }}/package.json" ]; then
            echo "manager=npm" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            echo "mand=ci" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            exit 0
          else
            echo "Unable to determine package manager"
            exit 1
          fi
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: "20"
      - name: Setup Pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@v5
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: ${{ steps.detect-package-manager.outputs.manager }} ${{ steps.detect-package-manager.outputs.mand }}
      - name: Build with Typescript
        run: npx tsc
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
        with:
          # Upload entire repository
          path: '.'
  deploy:
    environment:
       name: github-pages
       url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4