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Claude Code for web can be made testable during development by deploying to GitHub Pages from its working branch.

The author describes a workflow where Claude Code pushes to a branch, and by configuring GitHub Pages to deploy from that branch, each commit is live within 30 seconds for immediate preview. ✦ AI generated

Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-05 · original ↗

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A frustrating thing about Claude Code for web is that it can be hard to test what it's working on while it's still working. I've been using GitHub Pages to work around that limitation, and found it to work really well. … Within about 30 seconds of each push the latest content will be visible at yourname.github.io/your-repo/.

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