This is the source for www.missionbit.com/intro-curriculum!

We use Jekyll to help us generate www.missionbit.com because that's what GitHub Pages uses. This lets us build a site with a lot of pages without having to repeat so much over and over.

We use the following JavaScript, CSS, and font libraries to make the site work well and look good:

• jQuery
• Bootstrap
• Font Awesome
• Ubuntu Font Family
• Source Code Pro

Setup

Make sure you have an administrator account on the computer and install Jekyll by opening Terminal and typing the following command:

sudo gem install jekyll

HACKING

Open a Terminal and change to the directory where you've checked out intro-curriculum, then run this command to start the Jekyll preview server:

jekyll serve --watch --safe

This will run a webserver on your computer at http://127.0.0.1:4000/ and automatically rebuild the site when you make changes to the files. You will have to reload the pages in your browser to see the changes.

Using the page template

To make a page on the site use the template, they need to have what's called YAML Front Matter. A very small example page would look like this (you can also use html, with the same front matter):

minimal-page-example.md

---
title: Minimal Page Example
subject: setup
---

# This is a markdown title

* This is
* an unordered list

And this is
a paragraph.

Here's another paragraph.