JennTesolin.com – Jekyll Static Site

This is the Jekyll version of https://jenntesolin.com, maintained as a static site with modern dev tooling for local development and optimized builds.
Primarily built for personal use, local previews, and publishing to platforms like DigitalOcean.

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📁 Project Structure

jekyll-site/
├── _config.yml          # Jekyll site configuration
├── Gemfile              # Ruby gems required for Jekyll
├── Gemfile.lock         # Locked versions of Ruby gems
├── package.json         # Node.js dev dependencies and scripts
├── dist/                # Final build output (CSS, JS, images)
│   ├── css/
│   ├── js/
│   ├── imgs/
│   ├── search.json
│   ├── urls.txt
│   └── ...
├── src/                 # Source CSS and JS files
│   ├── css/
│   └── js/
├── imgs/                # Images for the site
├── _site/               # Jekyll's default output directory (not used for deployment)
├── .gitignore           # Files excluded from Git
├── README.md            # This file
├── humans.txt           # About the developer (you!)
└── feed.xml             # RSS/Atom feed

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⚙️ Dev and Build Setup

1. Install Dependencies

bundle install        # Ruby gems (for Jekyll)
npm install           # Node dev tools (ESLint, PostCSS, etc.)

2. Run Locally

npm run start

This will:

• Build the site (CSS, JS, images, and Jekyll output)
• Launch the local Jekyll server with livereload
• Watch for CSS/JS/image changes and rebuild as needed

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🔧 Build for Production

npm run build

This will:

• Clean the dist/ folder
• Lint and minify JS and CSS
• Optimize images
• Copy compiled assets into dist/
• Build the Jekyll site into _site/ using bundle exec jekyll build

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🔄 Sync Docs

🔄 Automation Docs

See sync-between-nextjs-json.md for full details on all sync-related scripts.

📘 Changelog

See the full Changelog for version history and updates.

🔁 Sync from Next.js

See nextjs-sync-to-jekyll.md for details on syncing blog files into Jekyll.

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🌐 DigitalOcean Deployment

This project was originally designed to deploy via DigitalOcean or similar hosts that support static HTML sites.

🔸 Note:
The [config] block (project = _site) found in earlier versions was specific to DigitalOcean's App Platform deployment. It is not required for GitHub or other hosts unless specifically needed by a platform.