Getting Started with Jekyll

In this repository I will be sharing my journey of learning Jekyll that I will be using to build my personal blog.

Installation

I will follow the Jekyll Installation Guide to install Jekyll.

Version of prerequisites on my system are as follows:

• ubuntu 20.04.2
• ruby 2.7.0p0
• gem 3.1.2
• gcc 9.3.0
• make 4.2.1

sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential zlib1g-dev
gem install jekyll bundler

Creating a new Jekyll blog

Create a new Jekyll site at ./myblog.

jekyll new myblog

Jekyll Plugins

Jalali date

https://github.com/mehdisadeghi/jekyll-jalali

KaTeX

There is no need to install jekyll-katex plugin. Just add the following lines to _includes/head.html according to the KaTeX documentation.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.15.1/dist/katex.min.css" integrity="sha384-R4558gYOUz8mP9YWpZJjofhk+zx0AS11p36HnD2ZKj/6JR5z27gSSULCNHIRReVs" crossorigin="anonymous">
<!-- The loading of KaTeX is deferred to speed up page rendering -->
<script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.15.1/dist/katex.min.js" integrity="sha384-z1fJDqw8ZApjGO3/unPWUPsIymfsJmyrDVWC8Tv/a1HeOtGmkwNd/7xUS0Xcnvsx" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<!-- To automatically render math in text elements, include the auto-render extension: -->
<script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/katex@0.15.1/dist/contrib/auto-render.min.js" integrity="sha384-+XBljXPPiv+OzfbB3cVmLHf4hdUFHlWNZN5spNQ7rmHTXpd7WvJum6fIACpNNfIR" crossorigin="anonymous"
    onload="renderMathInElement(document.body);"></script>

Modify the Theme

https://github.com/jekyll/minima

Building the blog

Build the site and make it available on a local server.

cd myblog
bundle exec jekyll serve

Note: Pass the --livereload option to serve to automatically refresh the page with each change you make to the source files:

bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload

Browse to http://localhost:4000 to see the blog.