Jekyll
Jekyll is a static site manufacturer that works like a file-based CMS, designed for personal, project, or organization sites. It compiles your content with Markdown and Liquid templates to produce a static website ready to be published by Apache, Nginx or similar server. GitHub Pages serves as the engine behind the sites.
Jekyll
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- You create a complete static website by processing Markdown files and Liquid templates
- Using custom plugins, you generate site-specific content and configure permanent links
- Publish content from GitHub repositories directly with the GitHub Pages infrastructure
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Show HN: Using Google AMP to build a Medium-style Jekyll site that loads in 65ms
“I randomly picked the React website as an example github-hosted page to compare with (it was one of the first google results for github-hosted pages). I definitely didn't mean to pick on you all in particular! I'm not suggesting you should have spent a bunch of dev time making…”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Jekyll 2.0.0 is released
“It seems like there is a gigantic living, breathing ecosystem made of these SSGs now, with Jekyll being the favorite for people who are inclined to seek out the one that has the most stuff written about it, or the largest community. Can't say I disagree with that method of…”
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