Jekyll
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- proper noun
- Specialized
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Jekyll
- Dr. Henry Jekyll.
- Jekyll and Hyde
Examples
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Jekyll is often referred to as a "blog engine for hackers."
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Note: I am in no way affiliated with GH or Jekyll; I just love the concept.
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GitHub Pages uses Jekyll as a static site generator and is quite a fun thing to play around with in itself (though it requires that Ruby be installed on your machine, which can be a bit of a pain on Windows).
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I think this is great as it gives you enough ownership that in the event of some horrible change to GitHub ToS, you can just get your own hosting, generate the Jekyll site yourself, and simply push the static files to your host.
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Also, since GitHub is hosting you, you don't have to worry about performance or uptime or any of those things (plus, given a static site is generated by Jekyll, performance shouldn't be an issue anyway).
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You get enough control that you can do some interesting things (Jekyll's template language allows you to do if's for's, etc.), but you don't have to worry about taking on an off-the-shelf behemoth or rolling your own blog engine.
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Jekyll is a popular tool for developers who want to create static websites using Jekyll.
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With Jekyll, you can easily transform plain text files into a formatted website.
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Many bloggers prefer Jekyll for its simplicity and flexibility in building sites.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jekyll (the site generator) is named after the story character Dr. Jekyll, who could change into Mr. Hyde. The name is a hint: the program 'changes' plain text and templates into a finished website, like a transformation from one form to another.