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Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown
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More Jekyll support? #589

Closed luispuerto closed 2 years ago

luispuerto commented 3 years ago

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Hey!

I know you already are offering some jekyll support, but it would be great if blogdown could operate equally on Jekyll and on Hugo.

I think Jekyll has improve speed a lot lately and it deserve some love. I checked how long would take my Jekyll blog to build on a simple Hugo template and the speed was more or less the same. A lot of people already have a jekyll blog and it's difficult to change to Hugo when you already have a workflow and a template you like.

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cderv commented 3 years ago

Thanks for opening this feature request. For reference, the jekyll support is described in https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/jekyll.html

I know you already are offering some jekyll support, but it would be great if blogdown could operate equally on Jekyll and on Hugo.

Do you have a wish-list in mind ? What are the painpoint ? What is missing for a good experience ? Are you already using blogdown with you Jekyll website ?

Having more details in a feature request is very welcome to appreciate the expectation and know more about the use case.

Thank you !

tcgriffith commented 3 years ago

A plus is that gh pages supports jekyll pretty well so it's good for users that want to deploy their sites in an all-in-one platform

luispuerto commented 3 years ago

@cderv I don't have an incredible wist list, but you can trim it down to basically have the same support for Jekyll and for Hugo.

I really like Jekyll, it's native to github so a lot of people starts just with Jekyll and then stay there. The community is really thriving now and if you can't do something with what is coming out of the box you can always can find or either an extension or someone has done it before. I understand that performance isn't that great as with Hugo, but sometimes people doesn't mind performance, not to mention that Jekyll has improved a lot on version 4. Not to mention that there is much more themes in Jekyll than on Hugo. I don't really know why.

Right now, there is only two functions —serve_site() and stop_server()— that work with Jekyll and all the rest are working just with Hugo. Also, the server site and the script to transform the .Rmd to just .md files uses the command jekyll while I really think it would be much better to use bundle exe jekyll. I've tried to change on the build script and I haven't succeed.

On my really specific case I want to give a try to Hugo and I'm going to to try to port my theme to Hugo because I really like my theme and I've working on it for long time and I'm not going to just throw away all that work. Besides, I haven't found a theme that really appealed to me on Hugo.

I really understand that you are't going to support every static blog generator out there, but Jekyll is one of the most used with Hugo and Hexo and the support should be equal.

yihui commented 2 years ago

I really think it would be much better to use bundle exe jekyll

This has been made possible in the blogdown 1.10: https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown/releases/tag/v1.10

Please feel free to file new issues if you want other improvements on the Jekyll support. Thanks!