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    Jekyll

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    Jekyll info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to 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.
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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 prose.io for handling / editing content CMS style

    and

    GitHub Pages for hosting static site / jekyll blog

    [Edited by Kagerjay, June 21]

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    Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Jekyll, and it has gotten 91 likes

    • Developed by Tom Preston-Werner, Nick Quaranto
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    Jekyll was added to AlternativeTo by s_ktt on Apr 22, 2013 and this page was last updated Nov 18, 2020.
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