Why is my create-react-app showing README.md, not index.html?

You can checkout the documentation from create-react-app regarding this.

Add homepage to package.json .

Open your package.json and add a homepage field for your project:

"homepage": "https://myusername.github.io/my-app",

or for a GitHub user page:

"homepage": "https://myusername.github.io",

Create React App uses the homepage field to determine the root URL in the built HTML file.

Install gh-pages and add deploy to scripts in package.json

Now, whenever you run npm run build, you will see a cheat sheet with instructions on how to deploy to GitHub Pages.

To publish it at https://myusername.github.io/my-app, run:

npm install --save gh-pages

Alternatively you may use yarn:

yarn add gh-pages Add the following scripts in your package.json:

  "scripts": {
+   "predeploy": "npm run build",
+   "deploy": "gh-pages -d build",
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",

The predeploy script will run automatically before deploy is run.

If you are deploying to a GitHub user page instead of a project page you'll need to make two additional modifications:

First, change your repository's source branch to be any branch other than master. Additionally, tweak your package.json scripts to push deployments to master:

  "scripts": {
    "predeploy": "npm run build",
-   "deploy": "gh-pages -d build",
+   "deploy": "gh-pages -b master -d build",

Deploy the site by running npm run deploy

Then run:

npm run deploy

Step 4: Ensure your project’s settings use gh-pages Finally, make sure GitHub Pages option in your GitHub project settings is set to use the gh-pages branch:

The most common mistake is when our GitHub Pages option in your GitHub project settings is set to use the master branch instead of gh-pages.

Just Change it to the gh-pages branch and you are good to go!

see below for example: gh-pages branch

Go to Settings-> Github Pages -> Source change source from master branch to gh-pages branch.

This will surely help you . Ping me in case you encounter any other doubt.

I had the same problem.

1. make sure you change the source from master branch to gh-pages branch.
2. If you don't have a README.md file, create one.