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Set up a new Jekyll project

This short guides shows you how to setup a new skeleton Jekyll project, using the Jekyll CLI to generate the files for you.

This guide does not require Jekyll to be installed globally. Rather, it takes you through installing Jekyll in a new project that only has one file in it, then uses that project Jekyll to create all the Jekyll base files in the same directory.

Under Jekyll docs, you can see the Installation page. That provides links to install for each OS. These are covered in some detail here.

See also New under my Jekyll recipes for a few ways to set up a new Jekyll site.

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Install Ruby 3 and Bundler

Resources:

• Ruby
• Bundler

1. Install Ruby

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Install Deno

A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

See deno.land for more help.

• Linux manual install:

$ curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh

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Make a REST API with Jekyll

Render content for all your Jekyll pages as a single JSON endpoint

How it works

The JSON Liquid file below uses all pages in the site and renders their content.

The output is a map or hash. It uses the page's URL as the key. And the content as plain text (no markdown or HMTL) for the value.

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Page performance metrics

Calculate load performance of a webpage, for any page you visit.

No libraries needed - this uses performance timings that are builtin to modern JS in the browser.

Based on Navigation Timing API doc.

Usage

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Install Go binary manually

The instructions here work on Linux and macOS and use curl or wget to download Go. If you prefer to use a package manager, see this gist.

Download and install from the Go website:

1. Find a release on Go site's Downloads page.
   • The filename will be:
     • go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz

• e.g.

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Install Firefox webdriver

How to install Firefox's Geckdodriver so you can do webscraping with Selenium and Firefox.

macOS:

$ brew install geckodriver

Ubuntu/Debian:

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Install Go with a package manager

If you want a manual solution instead for more control and to get the latest release available, see this gist.

Install the Go binary.

• Debian/Ubuntu
  • Install with apt-get to /usr/bin/go. NB. Requires root privileges.

    $ sudo apt-get update

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Jekyll - how to build a REST API

Serve your data as static JSON

How to make a read-only JSON REST API using Jekyll.

This doesn't need any Ruby plugins - you just use some built-in templating features in Jekyll 3 or 4.

You will end up with a single JSON file contains data for all pages on the site, and another JSON file of just posts. Alternatively, you can replace every HTML page and post with a JSON version.

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