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The Jekyll gem makes a jekyll executable available to you in your Terminal window. You can use this command in a number of ways:
{% highlight bash %} jekyll build #=> The current folder will get generated into ./_site jekyll build --destination #=> The current folder will get generated into jekyll build --source --destination #=> The folder will get generated into jekyll build --watch #=> The current folder will get generated into ./_site,
and watch for changes and regenerate automatically.
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Jekyll also comes with a built-in development server that will allow you to preview what the generated site will look like in your browser locally.
{% highlight bash %} jekyll serve #=> A development server will run at http://localhost:4000/ jekyll serve --watch #=> As above, but watch for changes and regenerate automatically too. {% endhighlight %}
These are just some of the many configuration options available. All configuration options can either be specified as flags on the command line, or alternatively (and more commonly) they can be specified in a _config.yml file at the root of the source directory. Jekyll will automatically configuration options from this file when run, so placing the following one line in the configuration file will mean that running jekyll build or jekyll serve would be equivalent to running jekyll [build|serve] --source _source --destination _deploy:
{% highlight yaml %} source: _source destination: _deploy {% endhighlight %}
For more about the possible configuration options, see the configuration page.