Articles on laoazhang.cn are in Markdown. Jekyll is used to generate the static HTML for the site, and the output is generated into a _site folder and served from Github pages.

Prereqs and installation requirements

We use Jekyll 1.4.2+ and Grunt to automate some tasks.

$ gem install jekyll
$ npm install -g grunt-cli

Note: If you receive permission warnings, you may need to run the above tasks with sudo.

Run npm install to pull down dependencies.

Editing and creating new articles

Jekyll generates the static site in a folder named _site. Once done, git commit them and push to master (no gh-pages) and Github builds the jekyll automatically.