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Jekyll is great. Fashions with things come and go, but Jekyll is still around. Much faster now too, thanks to improvements to Jekyll and importantly Ruby! Co

Jekyll is great. Fashions with things come and go, but Jekyll is still around. Much faster now too, thanks to improvements to Jekyll and importantly Ruby! Compile times used to be painful, especially with inclusions and data files, but now I don’t have any noticeable build time pain! Cloud Cannon is a great service to run Jekyll on, but not free I don’t think.

graypegg 3y ago
+1 for Jekyll, I just recently came back to it after giving up on trying to upgrade my Gatsby 3 theme. It's a beautifully scoped project. A script that spits out HTML from templates, and some markdown. It's all you really need. I'm sure Hugo is also great for the same reason, just haven't had a chance to mess with it.
- fragmede 3y ago
  especially on top of GitHub pages. it's free, as far as I can tell, and lets you have a custom domain
  - hanniabu 3y ago
    Same with other services like netlify and vercel
hanniabu 3y ago
I use jekyll for many sites, most aren't even blogs. But it's really slow to compile and there's not many plugin options so you have to try to write them yourself in ruby except documentation for writing your own is scarce and insufficient. I also wish there were an easier way up make an api call to get data to use within the template. I tried migrating to hugo for these reasons but i'm not a fan of hugo syntax and i couldn't figure out how to setup a non-blog site.