Minimal Jekyll Starter

This repository contains minimal boilerplate for building a Jekyll site with a custom theme.

Quickstart

First clone the application and install the Ruby dependencies:

git clone https://yaledhlab/minimal-jekyll-starter
cd minimal-jekyll-starter
bundle install

Then start the server:

bundle exec jekyll serve

The application will then be hosted on http://localhost:4000. Here is the 404 page:

CSS Files

All css assets are included in _includes/assets/css. To add additional css files, just place those CSS files in that directory then add them to the bundled and minified css for the application by adding the following line to _includes/assets/css/app.css:

{% include assets/css/my-new-css-file.css %}

The new stylesheet will then be included in the bundled and minified output. This minified stylesheet is inlined into rendered pages to reduce network requests (google.com does this too).

JS Files

All js assets are included in _includes/assets/js. To add new js files, just add those JS files to that directory and then add them to the bundled ad minified js for the application by adding the following line to _includes/assets/js/app.js:

{% include assets/js/my-new-js-file.js %}

Like the CSS for this app, the JS will be minified and rendered inline on the page to reduce the number of network requests required to render each page.