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How to serve an asset through jsdelivr CDN from Github.

In this post we are going to see how we can serve ui assets from github via CDN.

TLDR; CDN (content delivery network) is basically a network of servers and data centers that provides the fast delivery of content.

Today , I was learning about koa which is a node js framework. Suddenly a thought , what if I could create boilerplate code which I can use it for my future side project. I was able to scaffold a basic bolierplate using Koa and typescript.

Here is the link to the github repo if you are interested. It is still work in progress.

skarthikeyan96/node-koa-starter

Real problem began, I wanted add a banner to my readme. I designed a simple banner , but I knew one thing , I did not want to use dropbox or imgur.

Googling started , and finally my quest ended with jsDelivr . It was solving the problem which I faced.

Here are the steps , how you can also serve your files using jsDelivr

Setup your repository

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Add the banner file to your repository.

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Follow the syntax from jsDelivr to serve the asset via CDN



// load any GitHub release, commit, or branch
// note: we recommend using npm for projects that support it

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/user/repo@version/file


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Below is the example syntax



![banner](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/skarthikeyan96/node-koa-starter/banner.png)


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Now add the asset url to the readme file and push the changes to github readme.

🎉🎉🎉 Problem solved

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Thanks for read. I hope it will be helpful for everyone. Please let me know in the comments if I have missed something.

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jsDelivr - A free, fast, and reliable CDN for Open Source

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