Welcome to this deployment example of Jekyll, built and deployed in the cloud with ZEIT Now!

To find the source code of this deployment and many more deployed application examples, see our Now Examples repository.

Usage

You’ll find this post in the _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it then re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.

To add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts directory that follows the convention YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext and includes the necessary front matter. Take a look at the source for this post to get an idea about how it works.

Jekyll also offers powerful support for code snippets:

def print_hi(name)
  puts "Hi, #{name}"
end
print_hi('Tom')
#=> prints 'Hi, Tom' to STDOUT.

Check out the Jekyll docs for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at Jekyll’s GitHub repo. If you have questions, you can ask them on Jekyll Talk.

Deployment

First, download Now, then run the following in your terminal:

now init jekyll

When the command is complete, you will have a new directory named jekyll in the current working directory. Move into that directory using cd jekyll in your terminal, then deploy your new jekyll application using the following:

now

Once deployed, you will see a deployment URL, like the one you are currently accessing this site from.

Resources

For more information on ZEIT Now, see the following resources: