How to Host Jekyll

Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. You create your content as text files (Markdown), and organize them into folders. Jekyll automatically stitches the content and templates together, generating a website made entirely of static assets, suitable for uploading to any server.

Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform which is owned by Google. One of its feature is the ability to deliver web app assets with speed and security.

Requirements

Needs NPM, you can find the documentation here

Steps

Install firebase-tools
```
sudo npm install -g firebase-tools
```
Login to firebase
```
firebase login
```
This will open Google login page in your browser, login with the account you want to create the firebase account / project in.
Create a project in Firebase Console
- Once you are logged in, visit console.firebase.
- Click on "Add Project".
- Give a name to your project.
- Accept the terms and conditions.
- Click "Create Project".

Intialize Firebase in your Jekyll folder

cd <your jekyll folder path>

firebase init

Follow these steps
- Select Hosting by moving the arrow down and hitting "Space" and then "Enter".
- Select the app you just created in Firebase Console
- Setup the hosting options that work for you.
Deploy
```
firebase deploy
```

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