Building a Jekyll site folder

Syntax#

jekyll build [flag] [value] # Build the site with the setting specified by <flag> and <value>

# cf. list of available settings for Jekyll

Remarks#

If you edit _config.yml and you are using --watch, you need to restart the command to apply the changes.

Building the site to a folder

$ jekyll build
# The current site folder will be built into the ./_site directory

$ jekyll build --destination /var/www/
# The current site folder will be generated into /var/www/

$ jekyll build --watch
# The current site folder will be built into the ./_site directory and will be kept up to date with the source until you press CTRL+C to kill the process

Building with a specific Jekyll environment

you can set a Jekyll environment and value, when build time

JEKYLL_ENV=production jekyll b

JEKYLL_ENV=production jekyll build

JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll build

if your code contains the bellow snippet, analytics.html will not be included unless your building with JEKYLL_ENV=production

{% if jekyll.environment == "production" %}

   {% include analytics.html %}

{% endif %}