Geekuillaume Blog

This repository host my personal blog built with Jekyll. Much more to come, stay tuned !

Dependancies

• Ruby to use Jekyll for site building
• Node.js to use Grunt
• optipng and jpegtran for image optimization

Installation

• Install Jekyll with gem install jekyll
• Run npm install to install all Node.js dependancies
• Install Grunt CLI with npm install -g grunt-cli (as root or with sudo)
• On Debian / Ubuntu and other, use apt-get install optipng libjpeg libjpeg-progs to install optipng and jpegtran. On other plateforms, see respectives sites to installation instructions

Usage

• Use grunt to lauch the optimization of assets (css / js / images) and site building with Jekyll
• The site is now ready and stored in the dist directory. You just have to serve it with you favorite Web server (like nginx)

You can also use the grunt server command to watch for changes in your files or posts and automatically rebuild what's need to be rebuilt and serve it on the 8000 port (accessible on the address http://127.0.0.1:8000/).

Use with Github

You can use Github to automatically update your site on your server when you push a commit to your repository. To do so, change the port in the updater.js to something random and add a WebHook URL in your Github repo to your server IP (with the right port). This will do a request every time you push a commit and update the dist repository on your server.

Don't forget to lauch the updater.js file with the command node updater.js.

If your blog is behind Cloudflare CDN this script can also purge the website cache once the site rebuilt. To do so, simply add your CloudFlare email, token and domain in the updater.js file