About Jekyll

Jekyll is a static site generator with built-in support for GitHub Pages and a simplified build process. Jekyll takes Markdown and HTML files and creates a complete static website based on your choice of layouts. Jekyll supports Markdown and Liquid, a templating language that loads dynamic content on your site.

Install Requirements

  1. Use Chocolatey to install ruby and msys2 
    choco install ruby
choco install msys2
  2. Open a new command prompt window from the start menu, so that changes to the PATH environment variable becomes effective.
  3. Check your Ruby version using ruby -v. Ruby version 3.0 or higher.
  4. Check you Gems version using gem -v
  5. Install Jekyll and Bundler using gem install jekyll bundler
  6. Check if Jekyll has been installed properly jekyll -v

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