Jekyll serve File Edit Automatic build

Enable Automatic Rebuilding with Jekyll Serve When Editing Files

This article introduces a method in Jekyll, the static blog generation framework for Ruby programming language, to launch a server with the Jekyll serve command, monitor and detect edits, and automatically build when files are edited. bundle exec jekyll serve --host 0.0.0.0 -w...

Shou Arisaka
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Sep 30, 2025

This article introduces a method in Jekyll, the static blog generation framework for Ruby programming language, to launch a server with the Jekyll serve command, monitor and detect edits, and automatically build when files are edited.

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To get this working I had to run: jekyll serve -w โ€”force_polling

bundle exec jekyll serve  --host 0.0.0.0 -w --force_polling

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