Jekyll - Clean installation

How to host a Jekyll blog on Github

The following information and more details can be found on https://jekyllrb.com/docs/

• Go to github.com and create a new repository with your own github username.
• name it as username.github.io
• Add a readme file.
• Open vscode. Go to your folder where you want to create the site.

git clone REPOSITORY_URL

• Open the folder in vscode

gem install bundler jekyll

jekyll new username.github.io --force

cd username.github.io

• Edit _config.yml file. Replace with your details

title: Kaushik Chemburkar
email: attherate@gmail.com
description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
  Notes for myself
baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
url: "" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com
twitter_username: _Kaushik
github_username:  k4u5hik
mastodon:
  - username: kaushikc
    instance: mastodon.social

# Build settings
theme: minima
plugins:
  - jekyll-feed

• Append the following to the Gemfile

# install jekyll-admin
gem 'jekyll-admin', group: :jekyll_plugins

• Sass deprecation warnings were disabled by appending the following to the Gemfile (Optional)

sass:
  quiet_deps: true

• Run the following commands on the terminal

bundle install

bundle exec jekyll serve

• Open http://localhost:4000/ in your browser
• Open http://localhost:4000/admin/ in your browser
• If everything is fine, commit and push the changes to github

git add .
git commit -m "Jekyll clean install"
git push

That’s all! Your site is live at https://username.github.io