Jekyll
Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Features
- Static Site Generator
- Support for MarkDown
- No Tracking
- Command line interface
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Content Management
- Syntax Highlighting
- Publishing
Tags
- Ruby
- groovy
- blogging-engine
- textile
- static-website
Jekyll News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Jekyll
Static site generator Jekyll releases version 4.4.0 with notable changes and enhancementsJekyll, the static site generator maintained by GitHub, has released version 4.4.0, bringing some n...
Recent activities
Jekyll information
Developed by
Tom Preston-Werner, Nick Quaranto Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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- English
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- 235 Open Issues
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What is Jekyll?
Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right from GitHub.
Comments and Reviews
You can use github pages to serve up static HTML, CSS, and JS
There's a number of static blog site generators like
Jekyll is the only one directly supported by github for regenerating content with ruby / gem packages, which is done server-side. Everything else (Hugo, Hexo) you have to install your own dependecies locally and serve up the HTML / CSS /JS into github pages yourself
So it makes for a very lightweight and potentially feature-rich blog page all run through github, and very easy to use without much work once everythings setup
Strongly suggest you use
and
[Edited by Kagerjay, June 21]
Jekyll requires the following: Ruby version 2.5.0 or higher RubyGems GCC and Make