Autofill the live preview link from repo link on submission.

[Nitish-bot]

For every project you submit on TOP, you have a mandatory repo link and an optional live preview link, I figured that the repo link has all the necessary information to create the default link to live preview that Github pages creates.

For example, www.github.com/name/repoName could easily be converted to name.github.io/repoName while not everybody might use github pages, most people do and it would be a great quality of life change. Besides, we could still keep the link editable incase somebody wants to enter a link to a project hosted elsewhere.

What do you guys think?

[MaoShizhong]

Thanks for the suggestion!

The issue with this is that a lot of the curriculum's projects (in both full stack pathways) do not use GitHub pages for deployment, and actually need to be deployed elsewhere (e.g. server-based applications, React frontends (especially if they contain client-side routing) etc.). Some of those projects also don't have front ends attached, so a preview link wouldn't make sense for them.

Therefore, having that input autofill with a generated GitHub pages link will only be a mild convenience is some cases, and an inconvenience in many others.