Now that’s over, open your VSCode client & also a new Terminal ( ctrl+shift+` ).If all goes well you should see a screen saying MSYS2 is installed.After the install wizard a new cmd window will appear automatically and display 3x selections - Make sure to key in the number 1 before hitting enter to continue.Click Finish at the completion of the install wizard.During the install wizard accept all defaults.Download & run the Ruby+Devkit 2.6.X (圆4) installer ~ 132MB.All other install defaults seem fine to leave as-is!.During the install wizard - make sure to choose Visual Studio Code as Git's default editor from the drop-down (shown below).Download & run the Windows (圆4) installer ~ 44MB.Accept all defaults during the installation wizard.Download & run the Windows (圆4) installer ~ 57MB.Git - Use git update or git update-git-for-windows from your Git client to update to the latest release.VSCode - Go to Help > Check for Updates from your VSCode client to update to the latest release.

We’ll clone a free remote Jekyll Theme to a local folder and preview the siteĪlready have Visual Studio Code or Git installed? –> Update to the latest release prior to continuing with this guide.Part 4 - Tips & Tricks with Jekyll and Markdown editingįirst we need to setup our local development environment for the blog site by installing a few dependencies.Īt the time of writing I’m running a Surface Book 2 so these instructions are for the Windows 64-bit OS but can be modified to suit MacOS or Linux as needed.Part 3 - Securing your Content and Going Live with GitHub Pages.

Part 2 - Getting started with a step-by-step guide.

Part 1 - Why I’m using open source and an overview of my blog setup.

Shortly I’ll provide a detailed walkthrough of everything you need to get started with your own blog site.

I also shared my own setup so you can see what’s involved end-to-end. In Part 1 of this series I introduced you to open source blogging using some awesome tools and platforms available today. OpenSource Blogging with Jekyll GitHub VSCode Part2

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