Regarding conversion of Ghost blog to static pages and Prismjs

Question

I have a Ghost blog. I would like to host it using Jekyll etc. using static pages that I would be generating.

I use Prismjs for syntax highlighting. How is Jekyll going to handle this situation considering that static pages will have no Javascript support? Do I need to make changes from my side?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Static pages will have no JavaScript support.

Wrong. Static page doesn't have database support, but it supports JavaScript (quite obvious actually).

Jekyll has built-in syntax highlight engines with Pygments or Rouge. Pygments needs Python, while Rouge is pure Ruby based. Please have a look at documentation here.

If you don't want to use built-in engine, yes, Prism is also possible. You can totally follow the usual usage like this, or use this Jekyll Prism Plugin. For example, this article in my blog uses both built-in Pygments highlighting (for Ruby and Python code) and JavaScript Google prettify highlighting (for C# code).

If you don't know how to use JavaScript in your Jekyll project, please post your repository link, so we can help out.