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What is Jekyll?
Jekyll is an open source static site generator useful as a blog publishing system.
Simple yet powerful CMS with Jekyll
Jekyll is the Samurai sword of content management systems
Efficient Static Site Generation
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What is Jekyll?
Jekyll is an open source static site generator useful as a blog publishing system.
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(1-4 of 4)- Content stored in Git with the website code
- Free to use
- Easy to deploy to cheap/free hosting solutions
- Produces super fast static websites
- Not easy to update for non-developers
- No server-side language to support things like contact forms, so 3rd party software/service is needed
- Ruby gems can get messy
Jekyll will be tough to maintain for users who are not web developers, comfortable using Git to update content. There are 3rd party solutions for maintaining Jekyll-based sites without having to touch the code, but this will cost extra money. Also, because there is no server-side language, you will need to look elsewhere to handle things like contact forms.
- It's free with GitHub Pages, so it cost us nothing to use
- It's tied into GitHub, so deploying changes is super easy (as opposed to deploying elsewhere)
- Keeps all content together with the code, so only one place to maintain information
I've also looked into (but not tried) several other Jekyll alternatives, such as Hugo, Middleman, and Pelican. Ultimately I decided on Jekyll because of it's ease of use with GitHub.
Simple yet powerful CMS with Jekyll
- Lightweight blogging framework
- Lots of support documentation
- Can host practically anywhere
- Complicated for non-technical users
- Can be difficult to enter in new content
- Implementing dynamic components can be challenging
- Jekyll has improved our time to market in cases of new projects
- Jekyll has reduced the cost of hosting a website
Jekyll is the Samurai sword of content management systems
- Jekyll is a joy to use for people who aren't intimidated by HTML, CSS, and Markdown. It gets out of your way, giving you the power to build a website that would be a pain to build in straight HTML, but without imposing the needless complexity so many other CMS's bolt on.
- Jekyll sites tend to be extremely fast, and can be made even faster with very little effort on the webmaster's part. All you're serving are static assets.
- A big advantage of Jekyll is the ability to check in your entire site, content and all, into version control. You never have to worry about upgrading your site and losing your content. It's all backed up in GitHub, or any other git hosting you choose to use.
- Jekyll sites can be run at near-zero costs. Host it for free on GitHub Pages, and the only expense you have left is a domain name, about $10 a year.
- You can do most things with Jekyll you'd think would require a database and CMS. Blogging comes built in. Comments, contact forms, and many other common features can be embedded into your site from another service. With a little clever programming, most sites really don't need the complexity and speed impediments of a database.
- Straight out of the box, Jekyll lacks a friendly WordPress-style back-end. You'll be working in Liquid (HTML), Sass (CSS), and Markdown (content) files. If you're already comfortable with these languages, you'll feel at home in no time. If not, you may need to consider getting someone else's expertise to set up the site, and then use another back-end (probably paid) to make editing your site's files less intimidating.
- If you use GitHub Pages for the free hosting, be forewarned that GitHub only white lists a few plugins for their own compilation. This usually isn't a problem (you can compile on your own computer if need be), but can be annoying at times.
- Jekyll has kept our costs low, very low, on all the projects I've used on it. Think $10 a year low.
- WordPress, Blogger and Umbraco CMS
Efficient Static Site Generation
- Static site generation
- Dynamic templates
- Single-page applications
- Advanced, multi-page navigation and organization with template hierarchy
- Ease of local usage (Ruby isn't always the friendliest environment, especially on Windows)
- Up-to-date documentation on configuration for edge cases and plugins
- All of our documentation is now centralized to one, version controlled location and presented seamlessly. Engineers don't have to spend hours trolling through a wiki or sorting Google Pages to find the information they need.
- Because Jekyll sites are fully-fledged websites, sometimes the _design_ of a document can overwhelm the interest of the team maintaining it - they'll spend more time perfecting the look/feel than they should.