Jekyll

lastmod 2025-12-14created 2015-12-1010 edits

Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator for personal, project, or organization sites. Written in Ruby by Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub's co-founder, it is distributed under an open source license.

Comments

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• facebook Comments
• Disqus

List of Static Site Generator

• Static Site Generator
• Documentation generator
• Octopress
• Hugo (Golang)
• Pelican
• GatsbyJS (JS+React)
• Jekyll (Ruby)
• Hexo (JavaScript)
• JAMstack
• VuePress
• meli - Open-source hosting platform for static sites
• Netlify
• GitHub Pages
• ROAPI - Generate APIs for static datasets without writing a single line of code
• zola - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in.
• Evidence - Web framework for data analysts (open source that turns documents written in SQL and Markdown into reports in the form of a static site)
• Eleventy - Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.
• Nuxt (JavaScript+Vue)
• Zola (Rust)
• Elder (JavaScript+Svelte)
• Lusift - JS library for building product tours
• Astro - Ship as little JavaScript as possible
• fusion.ssg - Minimal framework for static websites
• 11ty
• SkunkHTML - Automatically generate a website on GitHub Pages from Markdown
• Pelican
• Sphinx (documentation generator)
• Redoc
• mkdocs
• Nikola
• Docusaurus
• Zensical
• Gitmal - Static page generator for Git repositories

Favorite site

• Jekyll web site
• Wikipedia (en) Jekyll

Guide

• Building a blog with Jekyll (1)
• Github help: Using Jekyll with Pages
• jekyll: Moving my home base from WordPress to Jekyll
• Building a free blog on GitHub with Jekyll
• Building GitHub Pages with Jekyll
• Adding comments to a jekyll project with the Disqus service
• Adding email sending to a jekyll project with the formspree service