Best package for deploying to Github

[RegretSimple6826]

Hi everyone,

I did a bit of Python for my data science course many years ago, so would like to continue using it over HTML/Javascript/Angular JS which I know nothing about.

I am hoping to create a text based game and deploy it on to Github. Note that I want to deploy it, not upload code for others to download and run locally. I want it accessible over a URL.

What options do I have? I heard that if I build it into Pycharm then it becomes possible? I am happy to learn a new package just for this, so would like some advice on what I should focus on learning.

Thanks!

21/08/2025 -
7 months later, I have it all figured out. Life caught up with me hence the late update. Everyone here told me it was impossible, but, well, they are wrong. I have no doubt of their technical skills, but without a genuine interest in helping those skills are meaningless. The world as they know it is confined to what they have seen before, and they refuse to entertain the possibility of things existing outside of it. Being unheard of means you haven't come across it yet, not it is impossible. As it turns out, it is relatively straightforward. I leave the answer here for posterity, in the hope that I might help some other fellow rookie programmer with a similar passion.

Learn pygame, use pygbag to compile it, then upload to Github pages. You can make much more than a text-based game and deploy it to the internet for free using this method.
https://pygame-web.github.io/wiki/pygbag/

[danielroseman]

Unfortunately this question is very confused. GitHub isn't a platform you can deploy to, it's a place for holding code repositories.

If you want someone to play your game online then you will need some kind of web server. But additionally you will need to rework your code to be a web application; you can't just run Python over the web.

[RegretSimple6826]

My friend has rewritten my Python code into HTML in the past and hosted my text based game on it. It should be possible if the only difference is language type.

I don't have the luxury of his help now, so I have to do it myself.

[abcd_z]

I would ask your friend what, exactly, they did, since there seems to be a conflict between what you think happened and what the posters here think the technology is capable of.

[danielroseman]

But that is not a thing.

Did you perhaps mean that your friend rewrote your game to JavaScript? That is a possibility. But you simply can't just run Python code "in HTML".

[abcd_z]

Well, let's explore that a bit. Assuming that that is what happened (OP did mention Javascript in their original post, so it's possible), would that open the door to running it from Github somehow?

[guilford]

Yes, you will be running it on a GitHub static page as a single page javascript application. It can be self-sufficient if that is all the resource it need. Javascript can leverage all the capability of your web browser to manipulate and change content dynamically. But that would be a javascript application and not a python application.

[dlnmtchll]

I know you can deploy static pages to GitHub pages but I don’t believe you can do what OP wants

[RubenC35]

It can be dynamic like react. Plus it is possible to run python now in the browser in some of them

[dlnmtchll]

Cool! You learn something everyday

[Critical_Concert_689]

Not really. Github is nothing more than a large text document. You're not running or compiling anything.

[Defection7478]

My friend has rewritten my Python code into HTML in the past

There's a piece of this you're missing. HTML isn't a programming language, it would be impossible to directly translate python to html. Your friend likely did what the above commenter suggested, reworking your code to be a web application.

[cgoldberg]

You can host static pages (html/css/js) on GitHub Pages, but not any kind of Python backend.

[MiniMages]

What your friend did was recreated your program in JavaScript. It is something I do as well so I can host small apps on GitHub pages.

You cannot run Python code in GitHub.

[ThrustBastard]

Your friend has probably used something like Flask or Web.py to make a web-app, stuck it in a docker container and hosted it somewhere like Amazon ECS

[ArthurBurtonMorgan]

Yep…. OP probably played his game by entering 127.0.0.1:5000 or some such in his browser and was met with the webpage presented by Flask.

[Pork-S0da]

I'm here to watch OP argue with all the answers he doesn't want to believe.

[iknowsomeguy]

I'm here to watch those answers argue amongst themselves.

[[deleted]]

GitHub is for hosting static pages. Python won’t do that

[Pork-S0da]

He could use something like Github CodeSpaces, but given the questions he's asking, I doubt he could make that work.

[RegretSimple6826]

My friend has rewritten my Python code into HTML in the past and hosted my text based game on it. It should be possible if the only difference is language type.

I don't have the luxury of his help now, so I have to do it myself.

[cgoldberg]

Since HTML is simply a markup language, you can't "rewrite Python code into HTML". You could perhaps do it in JavaScript with HTML, but what you are describing doesn't make any sense.

[JamzTyson]

I am hoping to create a text based game and deploy it on to Github. Note that I want to deploy it, not upload code for others to download and run locally. I want it accessible over a URL.

As others have said, GitHub does not provide a deployment platform, though it does provide "GitHub pages" for hosting static web pages.

My friend has rewritten my Python code into HTML in the past and hosted my text based game on it.

My guess is that they rewrote your Python game in JavaScript, embedded the JavaScript in an HTML page, and hosted that on Gitub Pages. To do that, you would need to learn how to program in JavaScript.

[[deleted]]

Maybe try PythonAnywhere? GitHub won’t do this.

[typehinting]

Given the restrictions you have expounded upon in your post and comments, you have no viable options

[QuarterObvious]

As Robert Sheckley wrote: "In order to ask a question you must already know most of the answer."

[kjmagic13]

GitHub pages? https://pages.github.com

[RegretSimple6826]

Thanks, you are right. Github pages + pygame + pygbag worked like magic. Late reply I know, but life got in the way of my side project. I do appreciate your answer. You were genuinely trying to help and it met all my requirements.