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Open Source GitHub Pages CDN.
https://github.com/viewsource/viewsource.github.com
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Open Source GitHub Pages CDN.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/viewsource/viewsource.github.com
- Owner: viewsource
- Created: 2011-07-16T10:33:20.000Z (about 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: gh-pages
- Last Pushed: 2011-07-17T11:43:48.000Z (about 13 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-05T12:35:49.836Z (5 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: http://viewsource.github.com
- Size: 1.08 MB
- Stars: 16
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Open Source GitHub Pages CDN
An extensive *archive* of popular *and less popular* open source projects.
http://viewsource.github.com
## Why?
This is a community driven resource. So unlike the "big" CDNs we can can add those little projects you love... and when we add a project we take the time to *properly* archive it as far back as possible; jquery v1.0.0 anyone?
## When?
Personally when I'm prototyping a demo on http://jsbin.com or http://jsfiddle.net and I need to pull in some common library or resource then these URLs are just dead simple to remember...
http://viewsource.github.com/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.js
## Small & Fast
GitHub Pages assets are gzip'ed... which can compress the response by as high as 70%!
**Response Headers**
````
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.0.4
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:33:57 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-javascript
Last-Modified: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:08:22 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:33:57 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=86400
Content-Encoding: gzip
````
## Use GitHub for file browsing the CDN
If you go to http://viewsource.github.com/jquery it will redirect you to GitHub to see what versions we've got archived for jQuery in the CDN.
If you navigate down to a specific file e.g. jQuery 1.6.2 at https://github.com/viewsource/viewsource.github.com/blob/gh-pages/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.js then simply remove `https://github.com/viewsource/` and `/blob/gh-pages` from the URL and click Enter/Return then BAM you've got http://viewsource.github.com/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.js
Alternatively you will see at the end of the `viewsource.github.com / jquery / 1.6.2 / jquery.js` breadcumb path there is a little "copy to clipboard" icon. This will copy `jquery/1.6.2/jquery.js` to your clipboard... simply paste that onto the end of `http://viewsource.github.com/` and you've got your url.
## Consistent and predictable versioning
We "normalize" the version numbers and remove them from the filenames e.g. `jquery-1.6.js` is archived under `/jquery/1.6.0/jquery.js` - notice the extra `.0` in our folder, this makes switching between versions simple:
http://viewsource.github.com/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.js
http://viewsource.github.com/jquery/1.6.0/jquery.js
http://viewsource.github.com/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.js
http://viewsource.github.com/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.js
## Dynamic "lastest" versions
A dynamic "latest" version is supported for when you want to test against whatever the most recently released version is in the archive.
http://viewsource.github.com/jquery/latest/jquery.js
## Host your own!
Simply fork this project to host your own GitHub Pages CDN. You will need to fork and then do a commit and push to GitHub before they will setup your GitHub Pages hosting.
Here's my personal fork...
http://chrisjacob.github.com/viewsource.github.com/jquery/latest/jquery.js
**Tip:** the repository only has a `gh-pages` branch; there is no additional `master` branch. So you only need to do `git push` when pushing to GitHub... which is much easier to type then `git push origin gh-pages`.
## Inspired by
[Github as a CDN - Cache your JavaScripts, Stylesheets, and Web Assets with Github Pages](http://viatropos.com/blog/github-as-a-cdn/)
[Cached Commons - by Will Norris](http://willnorris.com/2010/10/cached-commons) - has some constructive criticism of http://cachedcommons.org and this approach to building an "Open CDN" on GitHub Pages.
[ScriptSrc.net/](http://scriptsrc.net/)
## Other CDNs
[CDN JS](http://www.cdnjs.com/)
[Google CDN](http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html)
[Microsoft CDN](http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx)
[CachedCommons](http://cachedcommons.org)