Before we jump into it, let's briefly consider what type of content GitHub Pages can host. In short, GitHub Pages will let you serve any static web page or pages with dynamic client-side scripting. If you want to host projects with dynamic server-side scripting, you might want to opt for a different setup, for example, Heroku.
In simple terms, static or flat web pages consist of a set of files—or at least a single HTML file that serves the same content to every user. If you want to change the content, you need to change the source code.
Dynamic web pages consist of a set of files that await external requests or inputs to then build, change, and serve the content on the fly. They might show different contents for different users, or for different times of the day or operating systems.
There are two types of dynamic web...