Developing the Site

Developing the Site

Notes for those who wish to change the behaviour or appearing of the site, and to run it on their own machine, to test changes.

These are mostly intended for those not familiar with developing static websites with Jekyll.

Setting up development environment

• Fork this repo
• Set up Jekyll
  • Where it says 'cd to myblog', instead 'cd to your copy of this repo'

Running the test site

cd include-cpp.github.io
bundle exec jekyll serve

Then open http://localhost:4000 in a browser.

Note that as you then edit the site and save changes, the site gets rebuilt, and you will usually be able to refresh your browser a second or two later, and immediately see the changes.

Changing the site configuration may require re-running bundle exec jekyll serve.

Important files

• _config.yml
• _data/navigation.yml
• _includes/footer.html
• _includes/head/custom.html
• _layouts/home.html
• _sass/minimal-mistakes/_variables.scss