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Jekyll GH Actions Quickstart

Resources

Learn how about the tools and services used to make this project.

GH Pages and GH Actions

  • GitHub Actions resources.
    • Including links to the officials docs and my blog posts own getting started with GH Actions. Plus there are links to my cookbook and cheatsheets so you can learn more about GitHub Actions - solving a variety of cased around Jekyll, Node, Python and more.
  • GitHub Pages resources.
    • For hosting your static website.

I also wrote a tutorial on the Jekyll around using GitHub Actions. So check that out for more info on how this template works. The main difference is that the tutorial uses a Jekyll-specific Action, while this template project uses a more generic flow.

  • Ruby resources.
    • Jekyll is written in Ruby, so you need Ruby installed.
  • Jekyll resources.
    • A static site generator which uses Markdown or HTML content and allows use of themes.
  • Just The Docs - a theme on RubyGems which is used by this template.

If you are interested in seeing similar, have a look here. Note , these use Jekyll 3 only and no GH Actions.

  • MichaelCurrin - jekyll-blog-demo
    • default blog generated with Jekyll CLI. Using a theme, content, style set up, gems, and a Makefile.
  • MichaelCurrin - jekyll-themed-site-quickstart
    • minimal Jekyll site with a theme but no Gemfile.
  • MichaelCurrin - react-quickstart
    • React site uses GH Actions to build the site with NPM and deploy the results as a GH Pages site.
  • MichaelCurrin - vue-quickstart
    • Vue site uses GH Actions to build the site with NPM and deploy the results as a GH Pages site.
  • MichaelCurrin - hugo-quickstart
    • static built with Hugo, as a faster and more modern static-site generator.