Harp VS Jekyll

Harp

I use Jekyll, hosted on github Pages (for free). I find that it works extremely well for blogging code and math, as well as for creating a personal home page.

In my Jekyll install I’ve got a _cards symbolic link to my _posts directory, and in my _config.yml I’ve got a defaults section that looks like this:

So I was building my portfolio site the other day and I decided to use Jekyll.

Regular readers of this blog know that I'm using Jekyll to generate the static site. I'm using GitLab: when I push on the master branch, it triggers the generation job.

As its GitHub home page explains, the purpose of Bookshop is to enable the building of components in the various templating languages used by SSGs. The result meshes seamlessly with CloudCannon. At launch, Bookshop supported the Ruby-based Jekyll and JavaScript-based Eleventy SSGs. It now also supports the Go-based Hugo, with support for more platforms in the works.

Use a tool like Jekyll to easily add a blog to your website. And don’t forget to keep adding new content regularly! (once a week is the minimum!)

My experience is limited but I have heard lots of good things about Jekyll Jekyll Static Site Generator

Using Jekyll? Use either the -H or --host flag with jekyll serve to set the hostname to the desired IP address. To change the port from the default of 4000, use either the -P or --port flag. You also can set these parameters in the project’s configuration file (_config.yml or _config.toml).

Going further in this post, I will be explaining how each of these requirements was satisfied. After exploration and quick googling I found this tool called jekyll, to my surprise, it more of less supported all my requirements (with some additions).

I built it in Jekyll, my static site generator of choice.