Start a blog or a static site with Jekyll.

Jekyll is “an open-source simple static site generator”. In other words, Jekyll converts plain text files from a computer into a website or blog.

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run bundle exec jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

To add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts directory that follows the convention YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext and includes the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Check out the Jekyll docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at Jekyll’s GitHub repo. If you have questions, you can ask them on Jekyll Talk.

Using Jekyll with Supply theme

Supply is designed to sell products through Gumroad, but you can use the theme for a regular blog or just pick .

Gulp commands with browser reload

In addition to regular Jekyll commands, Supply lets you use Gulp to build and preview your site.

In the terminal, simply run

gulp build

to build your site concatenate your css (in asset -> css)

Use

gulp watch

This command builds the site locally on port 3000, with Browsersync so you can quickly revise design changes.

Preview your site with browser reload at: localhost:3000.

Use the address localhost:3001 for additional help like grid preview, css highlight and more during development.