Notes on Development of Gita Static JSON files API hosted on GitHub Pages

Last updated on 15 Jan. 2026

The first chunk of work, sponsored by the first donor/sponsor, was done from 06-Jan-2026 to 14-Jan-2026 with total work time of 23 hours 35 minutes. As of now, project is paused. For more, see my post: Status of Project: Development of Gita Static JSON files API hosted on GitHub Pages and Modifying Gita Frontend App to Use it.

End 15 Jan. 2026 Update

As of now at least, this post has minimal details info.

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08 January 2026

On Vercel, new git branch (datajson branch of gita Nextjs frontend project) deployment was not done automatically.

Procedure to create preview deployment from datajson branch on Vercel:

Vercel a/c page -> project -> Deployments -> click '...' button on top right -> Create Deployment

Chose datajson branch reference - it was automatically set to Preview -> Clicked Create Deployment button
Deployment got done successfully and build was started automatically.
Deployment succeeded. URL domain: https://gita-git-datajson-snipped--.vercel.app/
Deployed app seems to be working OK.

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Vercel free-tier allows me to share it with one collaborator.

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16:51, 07 January 2026

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/guides/debugging#debugging-with-vs-code gives easy to follow instructions to debug Nextjs App Router project server side code with VSCode.

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Chrome JSON Viewer extension does not handle dark mode well. So have disabled it.

Am using Chrome's built in 'Pretty print' feature for above JSON files. Does a decent job in both light and dark modes of Chrome.

Ravi S. Iyer: Software Development