I am also a boardgame.io maintainer, so happy to hear feedback about it too.
I think the framework has some gotchas and there are some improvements to be made (i.e. the whole thing about player being a string), but I still think it benefits a lot my productivity compared to doing it from scratch. Happy to hear in what cases you think otherwise.
(author here) Good point, but I still believe it is much better to use your own domain and have control of the whole html. Sadly because of the infrastructure currently available there is a balance between usability and centralization (but I don't think it needs to be this way). In the end, github page is being a commodity service, I could easily replace with any major provider to host the same website and users wouldn't even notice. If I wanted to be extremely radical I could host it on my personal machine on my house, but latency and availability would suffer. If I used a service like CloudFlare to improve it, we are back to centralization. Sadly, there isn't a black and white answer here.
(author here) I did not know that :P. I thought it was an action because it behaved like one, but you are right, it is a built-in feature on github. This also makes using mainline Jekyll a much better alternative. I will correct the post and follow up updating it from Jekyll now to Jekyll. I used this built-in support thinking it
was an action :P
I will! I am going to add a note to the post letting people know. Maybe we can create a similar functionality that Jekyll Now had of forking the repo and having a github page right away.
I am probably a bit late for this thread, but check out our non-profit FOSS project: https://FreeBoardGames.org
It is built with boardgame.io and react/next, and we have a growing community! We have a special focus on making sure our games work on mobile too