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Jekyll!


Let’s let have the computer do the heavy lifting.

I know all this manual/repetitive/copy-paste HTML writing is a pain! So we’re going to try using Jekyll, which is CMS software that we’ll use for templating. We’ll go into more depth next week, but I want you to start by having it installed on your machines so we can hit the ground running!

Jekyll on macOS

I think everyone is on a Mac? These are the installation instructions.

Install Jekyll on Apple Silicon (Jamstack)

A pretty thorough video of a guy setting it up and getting a basic site going.

This is going to be technical, probably somewhat tedious, and involve a CLI (new one)! But it’ll make our (HTML) lives much easier, I promise. Google, help each other, talk to the Code Tutors, and work your way through it.

For next week