jekyll-preview

jekyll-preview

Every time I try to setup a local Jekyll server, I fail. So I worked on a little preview server in node.

For local preview, this is aiming to provide the minimal amount of Jekyll features to quickly check out a post in the given theme and site configuration, responding with what would generate Jekyll (or close enough).

• Loads data from _config.yml
• Builds {{ site }} and {{ page }} variables with some stuff that Jekyll would generate for Liquid templates to consume.
• Reads yaml front matter in both posts and layouts
• Layout chaining support
• Quick, simple and node

Install

$ npm install --global jekyll-preview

Ex.

$ jekyll-preview ./
jekyll Listening on http://localhost:4567 serving /home/mk/src/mklabs/mklabs.github.com +0ms
jekyll:server Incoming request: / +838ms
jekyll:render Rendering page +1ms /home/mk/src/mklabs/mklabs.github.com/index.html
jekyll:server Incoming request: /_posts/2014-6-7-dockerized-jenkins-and-slaves.md +50s
jekyll:render Rendering _posts/2014-6-7-dockerized-jenkins-and-slaves.md file +0ms

Usage

$ jekyll-preview --help

  Usage
    jekyll-preview <dir> [options]

  Options
    --port  Server port [Default: 4567]

  Examples

    $ jekyll-preview

    $ jekyll-preview ./path/to/jekyll_dir

License

MIT © jekyll-preview