This blog post contains the simplified steps, how to setup MkDocs for a GitHub project to use it with GitHub Pages. I won’t covering details about the background. The blog post is for me a little cheat sheet and maybe it is also useful for you. Steve Martinelli created an awesome blog post in that context called 5 Features I Like About Material for MkDoc.
Here an example GitHub project, which is based on the setup I documented in this blog post: https://thomassuedbroecker.github.io/How-to-install-MkDocs-on-Mac-and-setup-integration-with-GitHub/
The gif shows the example project documentation:
