static-export-template

This is a demo repository containing two Pluto notebooks that are automatically converted to HTML by a github action, and published to github pages! 🌝

See the github pages deployment of this repository: https://juliapluto.github.io/static-export-template/

How to use the template

👉 Step 1

Create a GitHub account, and click on "Use this template". Choose a new name!

👉 Step 2

Click on Add files, and then Upload files. In the next page, upload your .jl notebook files.

Your notebooks will run on github every time that you update the files in this repository. To check the progress, click on "Actions", you will find the workflow for the last commit.

Wait for the Action to finish running your notebook.

👉 Step 3

Go to the "Settings" page of your repository, and scroll down to "GitHub Pages". For the "Source", choose gh-pages. Wait a minute for everything to initialize, and the URL to your web page will be shown!

Don't worry if it doesn't work immediately! It can take a while for the web page to be ready, even after your settings page says it's done. (Github pages says 20 minutes, but it can take even longer.)

Update notebook files

To update an existing notebook file, simply repeat Step 2 above! (You can also use Add files > Upload files to update upload a file that already exists on the repository.)

Alternative setup: add web pages to an existing repository

If you already have a github repository with some pluto notebooks in it, you may want to add a web view like the one for this repository. In that case, the steps are slightly different. In this case, I assume that you are familiar with adding files to a repository. If not, follow the steps above.

👉 Step 1

Make sure that all your Pluto notebooks can be run from a fresh Julia environment. See the tips below about packages.

👉 Step 2

From this repository, download ExportPluto.yaml.

Save the file in your own repository, in the same location: make a folder .github in the main directory, within that a folder workflows, and add the file there, with the name ExportPluto.yaml. Commit the new file to your repository.

Note: The yaml file states that github should use the github notebooks in the main branch or master branch of your repository. If you changed the name of your default branch, or you want to use a different branch, change main in line 5 in the yaml file to the name of your favourite branch.

Your notebooks will run on github every time that you update the files in this repository. To check the progress, click on "Actions", you will find the workflow for the last commit.

👉 Step 3

Go to the "Settings" page of your repository, and in the left pane, choose the category "Pages". For the "Source", choose gh-pages. Wait a minute for everything to initialize, and the URL to your web page will be shown!

Don't worry if it doesn't work immediately! It can take a while for the web page to be ready, even after your settings page says it's done. (Github pages says 20 minutes, but it can take even longer.)

💡Tips

Julia Packages

Because Pluto has a built-in package manager, packages will automatically work on the website!

Homepage

If you go to the (GitHub Pages) URL of repository, you will see a small index of the notebooks in this repository. You can customize this page, two options are:

• Create your own index.html or index.md file, it will be used as the homepage.
• Rename one of your notebooks to index.jl, and it will be the default notebook!

License

This template repository is Unlicensed, which means that you can do anything you want with it! When you use this template, you are also free to remove this license message.

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