blogdown: Knit on Save, or Save on Knit?

1 · Yihui Xie · May 30, 2021, midnight
One of the hardest decisions in blogdown that I had to make was whether to make “Knit on Save” or “Save on Knit” the default behavior. I chose the former, to which everyone seemed to object. In this post, I will explain my rationale. Before I start, I want to take this opportunity to reemphasize the most important thing to remember about blogdown, even if it is irrelevant to this post: when in doubt, run blogdown::check_site()! I’ll save this for another blog post in the future, but it is so imp...