Trial and Error

A developer blog by Kit Pearson

Build Notes

To modify the site's JavaScript files I setup a Grunt build script to lint/concatenate/minify all scripts into scripts.min.js. Install Node.js, then install Grunt, and then finally install the dependencies for the theme contained in package.json:

npm install {% endhighlight %}

From the theme's root, use grunt concatenate JavaScript files, and optimize .jpg, .png, and .svg files in the images/ folder. You can also use grunt dev in combination with jekyll build --watch to watch for updates JS files that Grunt will then automatically re-build as you write your code which will in turn auto-generate your Jekyll site when developing locally.

Acknowledgements

I'm very greatfull to Michael Rose for the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme. It is the foundation of my Jekyll blog and the source of many learnings. Hats off. :-)

Github I love your pages. Thank you.