Jekyll auto reloading

danny picture danny · Mar 30, 2013 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

Working with Jekyll for the first time, and it looks like the auto reload functionality (running jekyll --auto --server) is only triggered by updates to markdown files.

Is this the normal behavior? And is there any way to get changes to other types of files like css (I'm using scss) or html files in _layouts to trigger an auto-reload as well?

Answer

Harry Moreno picture Harry Moreno · Aug 15, 2013

As of version 2.4 Jekyll will auto-watch by default. Simply run jekyll serve.