Simple Developer Docs using Jekyll, GitHub Pages, and GitHub Enterprise

1 · WePay · April 10, 2017, 7 a.m.
I am a fan of simple solutions. In this post, I explain how we used Jekyll and GitHub Pages to solve our need for a new developer docs system. Like most startups, our first developer docs were just another controller in a monolithic application. That method served us well for a few years but had obvious problems: Trivial changes to the docs required a full production deployment of the monolith. Only developers with access to the monolith codebase could make changes to docs. Simple HTML was serv...