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Automatically optimise jekyll by plugins

jekyll-minifier is a jekyll plugin for minimise not only HTML but also Javascript, JSON and CSS files. The way using it is quite simple

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Optimise jekyll generator by adding plugins

There are a lots of plugins for jekyll static site generator specially for optimising purposes such as image document and javascrpit minimization.

jekyll-minifier

jekyll-minifier is a jekyll plugin for minimise not only HTML but also Javascript, JSON and CSS files. The way using it is quite simple, as other plugins, only neet to add the config options into the right jekyll config files and that’s all.

config for Jekflix template

First, just install the jekyll-minifier gem:

gem install jekyll-minifier

Then add this to your _config.yml:

plugins:
    - jekyll-minifier

But for the template I personal using, the main config file is generated from the splitted yml files. So you should open the _config.yml under the src/yml folder

Making the plugin section like this

# Plugins
plugins:
  - jekyll-paginate
  - jekyll-paginate-content
  - jekyll-minifier

Next, add the minifier plugin into Gemfile file

gem 'jekyll-minifier'

Also make sure run bundle command at the end

bundle exec jekyll build

All done, all the HTML, CSS, JS and JSON files will minify automatically after generate the new blogs or pages.