Jekyll

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Blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby

What is Jekyll?

Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.
Jekyll is a tool in the Static Site Generators category of a tech stack.

Who is using it?

281 companies use Jekyll in their tech stacks, including GitHub, Razorpay, and Sentry.

GitHub

Razorpay

Sentry

SparkPost

POP is putting People on Productions

New Relic

MobilePay

Babbel

SeatGeek

Tenten

Artsy

Youse

Why developers like Jekyll

Github pages integration
Open source
It's slick, customisable and hackerish
Easy to deploy
Straightforward cms for the hacker mindset
Gitlab pages integration
Best for blogging
Low maintenance
Easy to integrate localization