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Hydejack

Hydejack is a cutting-edge Jekyll theme that combines the best of static sites and modern web apps. It features a suite of JavaScript that makes the page feel like an app, without sacrificing backwards-compatibility, page-load speed or SEO.

The complete package for professionals: A blog, a portfolio and a resume.

It aims to be the complete package for professionals on the web. It features a blog suitable for both prose and technical documentation, a showcase for projects and a resume that fits with the rest of the design.

Demo

It's best to just see it in action.

Download

There are two versions of Hydejack: The Free Version includes basic blogging functionality, as did previous versions of the theme. The PRO Version includes additional features for professionals: A portfolio, a resume layout and a welcome page to feature your favorite projects and posts.

This table details what is and isn't included in each respective version.

	Free Version	PRO Version
Blog	✔️	✔️
Features (see below)	✔️	✔️
Portfolio		✔️
Resume		✔️
Welcome		✔️
Briefcase full of $100 bills
License	MIT	PRO
Price	Free	$29
	Download on GitHub – or – Use the RubyGem	Buy on Simple Goods

Features

Both the PRO and free version includes all of the features listed below:

• Full in-app page loading — no Flash of White, no Flash of Unstyled Content¹
• Advanced animations, inspired by Material Design
• A customizable sidebar that turns into a touch-enabled app drawer on mobile
• Near-perfect Google PageSpeed Score²
• Even higher perceived speed thanks to pre-fetching and latency-hiding
• Support for categories and tags — even when hosting on GitHub Pages
• Built-in collection of social media icons
• Author section below each article and multiple authors
• Simple and semantic HTML — can be viewed even with text-based browsers
• Progressive enhancement — sacrifice features, not content
• Google Analytics and Google Fonts support
• Blog layout with pagination
• Syntax highlighting
• Math formulas via LaTeX
• Disqus comments
• RSS feed
• Print layout

Documentation

Hydejack is documented extensively. You can read it here or in the repository's wiki, or download the PDF.

Footnotes

1. Applies after the initial page load. ↩

2. Actual page load speed depends on your hosting provider as well as discipline regarding resolution of images and usage of 3rd party plugins. ↩