jekyll-boilerplate

jekyll-boilerplate

A cleaned up version of the initial Jekyll setup for quick use.

Jekyll Boilerplate

Jekyll Boilerplate is a lightweight and cleaned up version of the initial Jekyll setup. The motivation behind this project was for me to avoid doing the same things over and over every time I build yet another site with Jekyll.

Features

Additions

  • An empty folder has been created at assets/images.
  • An empty folder has been created at assets/js.
  • An initial configuration for Kramdown has been added.
  • The CSS is being minified via Sass.
  • Some project-agnostic base styles have been added.
  • Normalize.css has been added.
  • .DS_Store and node_modules have been added to .gitignore.
  • The jekyll-feed gem has been added to automate Atom feed generation.
  • The jekyll-sitemap gem has been added to automate sitemap generation.

Editions

  • The _sass folder has been moved to assets/sass.
  • The css folder has been moved to assets/css.
  • The default.html layout has been cleaned up.
  • The index.html has been cleaned up.

Deletions

  • The about.md file has been removed.
  • The page.html and post.html layouts have been removed.
  • The sample post and the _posts folder have been removed.
  • All initial partials from the _includes folder but head.html have been removed.
  • Options email, twitter_username, github_username have been removed.
  • All the existing styles have been removed.

Fixes

  • A lang attribute has been added to the default layout.
  • A <main> element has been added to the default layout.

Credits

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