grunt-jekyll-pages

Serve GitHub-flavored sites natively using Jekyll.

grunt-jekyll-pages is for anyone working with GitHub Pages. This Grunt.js plugin emulates how Github Pages runs Jekyll in safe mode on Linux, Unix, or Mac OS X. It also provides a number of options (build, serve, watch, etc.) for dev and testing purposes.

The npm package is available publicly.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Node >=0.10 and Grunt >=0.4.0.

Jekyll and GitHub Pages (pages-gem) must also be installed. Refer to the Jekyll Installation guide for instructions.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide. It explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm i grunt-jekyll-pages --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jekyll-pages');

Overview

Setup your Gruntfile.js to use any of the options below by adding a section named pages to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  pages: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Use this method to add or append configuration options, targets, etc., to the pages task.

grunt.initConfig({
  pages: {                        // Task
    options: {                    // Universal options
      bundleExec: true,
      src: '<%= app %>'
    },
    dist: {                       // Target
      options: {                  // Target options
        dest: '<%= dist %>',
        config: '_config.yml,_config.build.yml'
      }
    },
    serve: {                      // Another target
      options: {
        dest: '.jekyll',
        drafts: true
      }
    }
  }
});

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jekyll-pages');

grunt.registerTask('default', ['pages']);

Options

You can use the configuration options available for this plugin. Refer to the Jekyll Documentation for additional options.

Usage Examples

Follow these Grunt examples to get started with grunt-jekyll-pages quickly.

Single Task

This example includes one registered task. grunt verify generates the site locally and makes it available at 10.0.0.1:8080.

grunt.initConfig({
  pages: {
    preview: {
      options: {
        serve: true,
        host: '10.0.0.1'
        port: '8080'
      }
    }
  }
});

grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-jekyll-pages");

grunt.registerTask("verify", ["pages:preview"]);

Multiple Tasks

This example includes two registered tasks. grunt serve generates the site locally, watches for changes, and makes it available at localhost:4000. grunt test generates the site and displays on-screen warnings for symlink errors.

grunt.initConfig({
  pages: {
    test: {},
    serve: {
      options: {
        watch: true,
        serve: true,
        baseurl: ['\"\"']
      }
    }
  }
});

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jekyll-pages');

grunt.registerTask('serve', ['pages:serve']);
grunt.registerTask('test',  ['pages:test']);

No Tasks (Raw)

This example has no specific task defined. grunt pages:a builds Jekyll's _config.yml file with a set of specific options, while grunt pages:b builds the same file with different options.

grunt.initConfig({
  pages: {
    a: {
      options: {
        config: '_config.yml',
        // Construct a string with JavaScript
        // Remember line breaks and indentation matter in YAML
        raw: 'highlighter: pygments\n' +
        'exclude: [\'development\']\n' +
        'author:\n' +
        '  name: ' + fetchAuthor() + '\n' +
        '  email: ' + fetchEmail()
      }
    }
    b: {
      options: {
        config: '_config.yml',
        // Construct a string with JavaScript
        // Remember line breaks and indentation matter in YAML
        raw: 'highlighter: rouge\n' +
        'exclude: [\'production\']\n' +
        'author:\n' +
        '  name: ' + fetchAuthor() + '\n' +
        '  email: ' + fetchEmail()
      }
    }
  }
});

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jekyll-pages');

Testing

Run the following command to test this plugin.

$ grunt test-plugin

Contributing

Please read our Contributing Guidelines before submitting code. In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

See our Release History for enhancements and changes applied to each version.