Final Project Template

Getting started

When setting up the project for the first time, you'll need to:

• Download the template as a ZIP archive, unarchive it, and save it somewhere on your computer. You'll probably want to rename the project directory from "final-project-template-master" to something that's appropriate for your project.
• cd into the project directory.
• Run git init to make it a git repository.
• Let's make our first commit! git add -A and then git commit -m "Initial commit".
• On GitHub, let's create a new remote repository by going to "New repository" in the "+" menu in the upper right hand corner of GitHub.
• Give your repository an appropriate name, probably similar to the directory name you used above, and a description.
• The defaults are fine for the other fields.
• We now run the commands in the "...or push an existing repository from the command line" example shown on the resulting page.

Publishing to Github Pages

We need to have a gh-pages branch on GitHub. GitHub will automatically make whatever commits are on that branch accessible at [yourusername].github.io/[yourreponame].

In order to create that branch for the first time:

• Create and checkout a new branch by running git checkout -b gh-pages.
• Push that branch to GitHub by running git push -u origin gh-pages.
• Remember to checkout your master branch again before making additional changes, with git checkout master.

Every subsequent time you want to publish new changes (after committing them!), these steps become:

• git checkout gh-pages
• git push
• git checkout master

Running a local server

If you haven't yet installed reload globally, run `npm install -g reload'.

After that, any time you want to work on your project, run reload -b from the project directory, perhaps in a second tab so you can continue to use git. (If it doesn't work, it could be a port conflict, so you might try specifying a different port like this: reload -b -p 4567.)