Jekyll

Jekyll

is a static website generator built with Ruby.

Whenever you publish something new – i.e. add a markdown file to the /_posts directory – the website can be re-generated (on a server or on your computer) with the programming language Ruby.

GitHub and Jekyll

You can publish the Jekyll website directly from a GitHub repository to your GitHub page: https://username.github.io/

• the changes are not published automatically but only after jekyll "serves" the website (i.e. makes html from markdown). this is done with the bash command bundle exec jekyll serve
• to preview the site locally: http://localhost:4000

Publish the website via GitHub

• GitHub Pages Docs: Creating a GitHub Pages site with Jekyll – Creating your site