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User Manual 👉

Getting Started

You will need Ruby and Bundler to use Jekyll. Following Using Jekyll with Bundler to fullfill the enviromental requirement.
Installed dependencies in the Gemfile:

sh
$ bundle install

Serve the website (localhost:4000 by default):

sh
$ bundle exec jekyll serve  # alternatively, npm start

Development (Build From Source)

To modify the theme, you will need Grunt. There are numbers of tasks you can find in the Gruntfile.js, includes minifing JavaScript, compiling .less to .css, adding banners to keep the Apache 2.0 license intact, watching for changes, etc.

Yes, they were inherited and are extremely old-fashioned. There is no modularization and transpilation, etc.

Critical Jekyll-related code are located in _include/ and _layouts/. Most of them are Liquid templates.

This theme uses the default code syntax highlighter of jekyll, Rouge, which is compatible with Pygments theme so just pick any pygments theme css (e.g. from here and replace the content of highlight.less.