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I am creating my website on github page, I am not using jekyll or any of its kind, it's just pure javascript and html css. Why sometime it gives page build failure? what it is building then?

Blake
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By default in a github repository, the gh-pages branch is build with Jekyll.

If you have underscored folders (eg: _myfolder) Jekyll tries to build. If they are not real Jekyll folders, this breaks the build.

If you don't want to process you html/js code, add a .nojekyll file at the root of your code. Github will then not try to build, it will just serve your pages as is.

More info in Github pages doc

David Jacquel
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    Thanks, spot on! Here's the original blog post mentioning this feature https://github.com/blog/572-bypassing-jekyll-on-github-pages – Jan Molak Feb 10 '17 at 02:58
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I was facing the same error. I was using only HTML, CSS and JS just like you. Also adding .nojekyll made no changes, I was still getting the same error.

Then I figured out the error in my code editor(VS code). VS code shows if there any problems in the code only the bottom left corner.

The thing that caused error was that I was missing a colon(:) in my css code.

So check your code once more if it this kind of minor issues.

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