jekyll-starter

An opinionated, ready-to-go starter pack to kickoff Jekyll projects with the basics and a few helpful tools to help along the way.

Guiding Principles

• Well Documented
• Easy to Stand up
• Easy to build upon
• Modular Reusable Components with minimal styles
• Capture common Jekyll logic

Tech & Tools

• Jekyll
• Siteleaf Ready
• Sass
• Bass CSS
• Grunt

Tech & Tools to come

• Grunt + Jekyll
• Sass Linting
• BrowserSync
• purifyCSS
• cookiecutter
• modern-normalize
• purgecss

Get Started

If you don't have HomeBrew Get it by pasting this in your console...

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Create a new project from the Jekyll-Starter template using cookiecutter:

brew install cookiecutter
cookiecutter gh:DanRader/jekyll-starter

Follow the prompts to configure your project with the available options. When finished, cd into your project, installed npm dependencies with npm i, and quickly get started by running npm run dev.