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Developers looking for a solution transform their plain text into static websites and blogs

About Jekyll

No more databases, comment moderation, or pesky updates to install, just your content. Markdown, Liquid, HTML & CSS go in. Static sites come out ready for deployment. Permalinks, categories, pages, posts, and custom layouts are all first-class citizens here. Sick of dealing with hosting companies? GitHub Pages are powered by Jekyll, so you can easily deploy your site using GitHub for free, custom domain name and all. Jekyll is a static site generator. It takes text written in your favorite markup language and uses layouts to create a static website. You can tweak the site’s look and feel, URLs, the data displayed on the page, and more. The Jekyll gem makes a jekyll executable available to you in your terminal. Typically you’ll use jekyll serve while developing locally and jekyll build when you need to generate the site for production. To change Jekyll’s default build behavior have a look through the configuration options.

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ease 4.5 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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  • A Jekyll User
    Principal Software Engineer
    Used the software for: 6-12 Months
    Frequency of Use: Yearly
    User Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Company Size: 100 - 499
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    "Solid ruby static site generator"

    Posted 2022-07-30

    Pros: - easy to start a site
    - runs on ruby, which doesn't have many options in the web space
    - puts the focus on writing content rather than maintaining a site
    - good documentation
    - free

    Cons: - not a ton of features compared to Gatsby, nuxt, next, etc

    Overall: Jekyll is probably the best option if you need to build a static site using Ruby, but its feature set is limited compared to JavaScript based alternatives.

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  • Aman V.
    Technical Lead
    Used the software for: 2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 20,000 or More
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Excellent static site generator"

    Posted 2022-04-16

    Pros: Free & Open source.
    Highly customizable.
    Blog-aware site generator.
    Works great with GitHub pages to host static content.

    Cons: Setup may be challenging for non technical users.

    Overall: Jekyll is a blog aware static site generator which can be used to build simple yet functional websites or blogs.

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