Jekyll Bootstrap Quickstart 🧪 🥾 🚀

Starter template for using Jekyll 4 and the Bootstrap gem

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About

This project includes the Bootstrap gem. So Bootstrap styling can be loaded as your CSS, without having to use NPM commands.

• bootstrap on RubyGems.
• twbs/bootstrap-rubygem repo.

How to use this template

If you want to deploy to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions, see:

• MichaelCurrin/jekyll-gh-actions-quickstart

Or, add a Netlify config and deploy to Netlify.

Documentation

Installation

Install Ruby and Bundler at the user level.

Clone the project or your copy of the template.

Install project dependencies:

$ make install

Usage

Start dev server:

$ make serve

Open in the browser:

• http://localhost:4000/jekyll-bootstrap-quickstart/

Build:

$ make build

How it works

• Bootstrap gem is installed using [Gemfile][/Gemfile].
• The _config.yml is set up to load SASS styling from gems. This extra work is because the gem was not made to be compatible with Jekyll.
• The styles.scss file is set up to load from the Bootstrap gem.

License

Released under MIT by @MichaelCurrin.