1 day after Jekyll… Here’s my review on it!

My honest* pros and cons

Pros

  • It’s fast as fuck boiiiii

  • It’s quite easy to learn for a SSG

  • Very flexible

  • Very lightweight

  • Site is pretty fast out of the box

  • GitHub and Cloudflare Pages deployment, convenient!

  • Markdown is superior for blogging

Cons

  • Not everyone likes Markdown, but I do!

  • Liquid is time-consuming if done manually, boring…

  • You need to install libvips manually to build the site, that’s only one EXTRA dependecy

  • I needed to make a helper script for my posts

My personal score: 9/10 - I am not done with Automad, but it’s better in flexibility

Conclusion

Jekyll is by far the easiest SSG i’ve ever used. And with helper scripts and LLMs, alongside deployment options, I can honestly say that yeah… It’s good enough for my use case!