Then, enable the Virtual Machine Platform optional feature. To do so, open PowerShell as Administrator and run: dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linuxįirst of all, we need to have the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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This is not usually a problem, since in most of the situations the preview capabilities of the editor are enough, but there are times when we may need to see the website as it will be once published, for example when we need to create the menu structure.īut there is a way to compile our Jekyll sites locally, and thanks to some tips from my colleague Chris Arceneaux, I learned how to do it on my Windows 10 laptop. However, one part that is missing in any local editor, Atom or Visual Studio Code or anything else, is the capability to show the content in the so-called wysiwyg (“what you see is what you get”) way.
Thanks to our Git repository, we can focus on our content, share it among our peers and have it published easily without worrying about learning any web technology. Many of the websites I contribute to, like the Veeam best practices or the Cloud Connect book, use a combination of Markdown for the content creation and Jekyll for the web publishing.
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