Jekyll is a blog-aware static-site generator. It can tranform plain text into static websites and blogs. It is simple as there are no databases or security patches to take care of. It takes in Markdown, Liquid and HTML & CSS and outputs ready to deploy static site. You can easily use the ‘GitHub Pages’ free hosting to host your jekyll website.
Installation
Jekyll is a Ruby Gem. We need to install Ruby in order to use Jekyll.
To install Ruby and other requirments as per your Operating System follow this detailed guide: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/