Prepend url, too, in feed.xml.

[parkr]

Per the convo on 2dec333:

@albertogg:

@parkr what about all the variables {{ site.baseurl }} variables used in the feed.xml, _includes/head.html _incluedes/header? do you suggest changing them?

@parkr:

I would prefer not to use them in a perfect world, but this works.

@albertogg:

But they are being used in all those files I stated.

[...]

@troyswanson:

Those ought to be absolute URLs, no?

@parkr:

Yeah.

NOW THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!!

[troyswanson]

💥 GET A LIFE, @parkr (jk, you're awesome)

[parkr]

Did we miss anything, @albertogg?

[albertogg]

jumm, I'm checking.

[albertogg]

I what about _includes/head.html do you prefer absolute URLs?

[troyswanson]

It is kind of weird for that http://yourdomain.com URL to be there on dev. If you prepend all of your stuff with those (like your CSS and JS), then they just won't load.

[albertogg]

yes @troyswanson, that's true... and it's what got me thinking

[parkr]

What if we suggest using a _config_dev.yml file that just contains:

url: "http://localhost:4000"

❓

Then they run jekyll serve -w -c _config.yml,_config_dev.yml in dev. and just jekyll build for production.

[parkr]

It feels overly complicated to me... I wish we could just run jekyll <subcmd> --dev or something

[albertogg]

IMHO think that will complicate things a bit. I will get rid of those prepend things if they aren't needed

[troyswanson]

I was just thinking that, actually. Traditionally, we encouraged folks to add something to the jekyll command, like jekyll <subcmd> --baseurl "", right? I think the only thing people will need to change on dev is that URL business.

[albertogg]

Remember that the template is a "base" for people and It doesn't need to be "perfect" just what we consider "best" practice and also be what we consider a good starting point.

[parkr]

Ok, I just messed around with it for a while – I think I got it perfect.

[albertogg]

Question: Isn't the default baseurl = / ? when it's not declared in the _config.yml?

[parkr]

The default is now "" as of 97e9fb2. We can drop it, but it's nice to have for projects on GHP and to see the difference b/w url and baseurl.