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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.

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  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  • Linux
  • Self-Hosted
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  • Developed by

    US flagTom Preston-Werner, Nick Quaranto
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    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

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Development, Social & Communications, Online Services, OS & Utilities, Photos & Graphics

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  •  51,713 Stars
  •  10,304 Forks
  •  256 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Jekyll, and it has gotten 127 likes

Jekyll was added to AlternativeTo by s_ktt on and this page was last updated .

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Kagerjay
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You can use github pages to serve up static HTML, CSS, and JS

There's a number of static blog site generators like

  • Hexo (based on Node.js)
  • Hugo
  • Jekyll etc

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

Prose icon Prose prose.io for handling / editing content CMS style

and

GitHub Pages icon GitHub Pages for hosting static site / jekyll blog

[Edited by Kagerjay, June 21]

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Jekyll requires the following: Ruby version 2.5.0 or higher RubyGems GCC and Make

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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.