title: Base URL for React.js website on Github pages
body: <p>I am deploying my portfolio website, made using React.js on Github pages. </p>
  
  <p>All the tutorials mention the following url as the url to the homepage:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    ...
    "homepage": "https://myusername.github.io/my-app",
    ...
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So to open the website, the url would be <a href="https://myusername.github.io/my-app" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://myusername.github.io/my-app</a>. Is it possible to somehow rename the url to only <a href="https://myusername.github.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://myusername.github.io/</a> as is possible while deploying using pure JavaScript?</p>
  
  <p>I have tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    ...
    "homepage": "https://myusername.github.io/",
    ...
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>already. It only renders the README.md.</p>
  
  <p>Links: <a href="https://github.com/Shubhayu-Das/portfolio" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Shubhayu-Das/portfolio</a> &amp; <a href="https://github.com/Shubhayu-Das/Shubhayu-Das.github.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Shubhayu-Das/Shubhayu-Das.github.io</a></p>
  
  <p>Edit: I am using gh-pages to build and deploy the app to Github Pages.</p>