# Meet Jekyll - The Static Site Generator

DevFeed: [Meet Jekyll - The Static Site Generator](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/meet-jekyll-the-static-site-generator-10579.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/jekyll-docs-site/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2022-05-28T15:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [Jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jekyll.md>), [GitHub Actions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github-actions.md>), [Markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/markdown.md>), [Docker Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker-compose.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [github-actions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github-actions.md>), [github-pages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github-pages.md>), [jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jekyll.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosted.md>), [static-site-generator](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/static-site-generator.md>)

## AI overview

A practical tutorial on building a Jekyll documentation site with the Chirpy theme. It covers installation and configuration, Markdown pages, GitHub Actions builds, GitHub Pages hosting, self-hosting, Docker, production builds, and post formatting.

## Source excerpt

Jekyll is a static site generator that transforms your plain text into beautiful static web sites and blogs.It can be use for a documentation site, a blog, an event site, or really any web site you like. It's fast, secure, easy, and open source.It's also the same site generator I use to maintain my open source documentation.Today, we'll be installing and configuring Jekyll using the Chirpy them...