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Jekyll livereload browser not connecting

I'm not a ruby expert here, and I'm new to jekyll just trying to get the livereload plugin to work on a blank theme.

plugin: https://github.com/RobertDeRose/jekyll-livereload

I setup jeckyll with a blank theme with jekyll new theme --blank When I run jekyll serve, I can see LiveReload Server: http://127.0.0.1:35729 output in terminal so I guess it should be working, but the browser reloading doesn't work. However it does work if I use the default theme.

When using the default theme, there's an extra message: LiveReload: Browser connectedwhen I run jekyll serve. That message doesn't appear with blank theme.

Is there something I'm missing here?

Solution

  • I know this is old, but I was facing the same issue, so I thought I'd share the solution that worked for me.

    You just need to add front matter to the top of your html file, that's two triple-dashed lines, so your html file should look like this:

    ---
---
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">