Jekyll's out-of-the-box support for custom Markdown engines allows us to use Pandoc and it's ecosystem of filters to include extensions like diagrams or mathematics. In this post, we write a minimal Jekyll based blog with support for Mermaid diagrams and Mathjax via Pandoc filters.
Integrating pictures into Jekyll blog posts is simple and easy but what if we want to highlight a single image or a gallery in a modal? The Lightbox2 JavaScript library can help. Here's how to use it in Jekyll.