Scarily Simple Static Sites with Jekyll and PowerShell

Jekyll is a static site generator and server.

PowerShell is a dynamic scripting language that works with everything.

PSJekyll is a PowerShell module for managing Jekyll websites.

You can install PSJekyll from the Gallery:

Install-Module PSJekyll -Force -Scope CurrentUser

Then you can import it by name:

Import-Module PSJekyll

$psJekyll.Site will have any sites beneath the current directory:

# Push into the PSJekyll module, which will have a site
Get-Module PSJekyll | Split-Path | Push-Location
$psJekyll.Site # output the site

You can set a new configuration file by using:

# Ideally, pass all values in within `[Ordered]` hashtables.
# otherwise the file may change more often than expected.
$psJekyll.Site.Config = [Ordered]@{}

You can set site data in almost the same way as you set configuration:

$psJekyll.Site.Data = @{"MyFavoriteNumber"=42}

# This will create a page that will contain a repository list (in a GitHub page)
$psJekyll.Site.Page = "MyPage", "My Content", @{MyMetadata=$true}

You can easily use PSJekyll as a GitHub Action.

This helps you automate updating content and data within a Jekyll site or GitHub Page.

- name: UsePSJekyll
- uses: PowerShellWeb/PSJekyll@main

Using this action will run any *.PSJekyll.ps1 files in your repository.

Any files outputted from this will be checked into the current branch.

PSJekyll ships every build in a container.

To pull down PSJekyll and start your own server, use something like:

# Pull down the latest image
docker pull ghcr.io/powershellweb/psjekyll

# Start the image in an interactive terminal on port 8069.
docker run --interactive --tty --publish 8069:4000 ghcr.io/powershellweb/psjekyll

• New-PSJekyll creates Jekyll sites.
• Start-PSJekyll starts Jekyll servers in a job.
• Stop-PSJekyll stops running Jekyll jobs.