Separate GitHub repositories for every FCC project?

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Is is better to have lots of different GitHub repositories for each of the projects completed in FCC or to have one that groups all of your smaller projects together?

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I would definitely keep at least all the front-end projects in a single repo.

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@ClimbinSheep I kept one repo for basic Javascript then added a new one when I started basic algorithm scripting.

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Yes, put related projects all in one repo. You could put each project into its own folder, but that might not be necessary if you name your files wisely.

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I put all of my FCC work into one repo. To keep it clean, I separated each section into folders (i.e. ā€œbasic-algorithm-scriptingā€, ā€œintermediate-front-end-development-projectsā€, etc.).

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So you save all the FCC challenges in GitHub as well, aside from the projects?

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Out of interest, how does this work if you wanted to use GitHub Pages to show off your projects? Iā€™m very new to all this (but am using GitHub instead of Codepen), but it seems that you need an index.html page for it to pick up what youā€™re doing and I assume you can only have one of those per repository?

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Yeah, I have been saving my algorithm solutions and my regular projects into one repo. But thatā€™s just personal preference. You could just do the finished projects instead.

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If I remember correctly, you can only have one Github Pages project.

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Aah that makes sense - so potentially set the project live and once checked etc, move it into its own folder and then rinse/repeat. Thank you!

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You can have 1 GitHub page that acts like your ā€˜usernameā€™ page for your name, and unlimited projectsā€¦ each has itā€™s own repo as far as I recallā€¦ you have to do a very specific branch naming for it to publishā€¦ something like gh-pagesā€¦

So if you are storing projects then many in one repo is fine but if you want to make a very basic webpage and use GitHub to publish it I think itā€™s one per repoā€¦

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Ah! I should always go to the sourceā€¦

Shows how to create both the Userpage and multiple project pages.

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Thanks Darren - thatā€™s what I thought. For my Front-End projects Iā€™ll keep things as separate repos. Once I move on to Full-Stack I may be able to combine them.

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The topic is a bit old but after saving your codes on Github, you can deploy your projects on Heroku.

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