What is Jekyll?

Set aside concerns about databases, comment moderation, and frequent updates, and concentrate solely on your content creation. With the ability to use Markdown, Liquid, HTML, and CSS, you can generate static sites that are ready for immediate deployment. Important features such as permalinks, categories, pages, posts, and customizable layouts take precedence. If you’re weary of dealing with hosting providers, GitHub Pages, utilizing Jekyll, offers a free way to launch your site with a personalized domain. Jekyll serves as a static site generator that converts your text in the markup language of your choice into a refined static website by utilizing various layouts. You have the freedom to customize the visual aspects of your site, modify URLs, and control the content displayed on each page. The Jekyll gem equips your terminal with a jekyll executable, which you commonly run with jekyll serve during local development and jekyll build for generating the production site. Should you wish to alter the default build settings of Jekyll, there are numerous configuration options at your disposal. In the end, Jekyll streamlines the creation and management of static websites, making it a superb option for developers looking to enhance their workflow and efficiency. By focusing on the simplicity and ease of use offered by Jekyll, you can elevate your web development experience significantly.

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Company Facts

Company Name:
Jekyll
Company Website:
jekyllrb.com

Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
English

Jekyll Categories and Features

Web Design Software

Autocompletion
Collaborative Editing
Content Management
Drag & Drop
Element Libraries
Programming Language Support
Syntax Highlighting
Templates

Jekyll Customer Reviews

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Principal Software Engineer
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Yearly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    Ease Of Use
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    Solid ruby static site generator

    Date: Jul 30 2022
    Summary

    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.

    Positive

    - 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

    Negative

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

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  • Reviewer Name: Aman V.
    Position: Technical Lead
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 20,000 or More
    Feature Set
    Layout
    Ease Of Use
    Cost
    Customer Service
    Would you Recommend to Others?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Excellent static site generator

    Date: Apr 16 2022
    Summary

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

    Positive

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

    Negative

    Setup may be challenging for non technical users.

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