How to share a NetLogo model through GitHub

Question

This really helpful question (and answer) works great for sharing a NetLogo model through a public folder in Dropbox.

However, my understanding is that Dropbox will no longer (though for the moment still does) support sharing HTML (and so NetLogo files) this way.

The question and answer above mentioned GitHub, and in particular the URL to the "raw" HTML file, as a potential solution. I tried this but had some problems.

Here's the file hosted via Dropbox (it works) : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1190498/Virus%20on%20a%20Network%20(Hinze).html

Here's the identical, I think, (raw) file hosted via GitHub: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jrosen48/netlogo-models/master/Virus%20on%20a%20Network%20(Hinze).html

Thinking that the key was rendering the HTML, I tried to prepend https://htmlpreview.github.io/? to the file hosted via GitHub, to no avail.

How to share a NetLogo model through GitHub?

Answer 1

It's kind of sad that the rules for this keep changing, but I guess there are two things that I could kind of recommend. One is to use the NetLogo Modeling Commons. NLW versions of models uploaded there can be directly linked to, simply by uploading the .nlogo file—that is, you never even need to do "Export: HTML".

The other option—the option that I think I might recommend more strongly is to use GitHub Pages, which is essentially a free, basic web host. You can see here an example of a model that I uploaded to GitHub pages. The setup of the repository is quite trivial; I just made a repo named "[username].github.io", uploaded the exported HTML file, and then it was accessible from a predictable URL.