tl;dr - Started trying out jekyll after I found an excellent blog theme. fwiw I still prefer hugo, but it seems like Jekyll has better themes.

Install Jekyll in Mac

brew install ruby

After cloning your jekyll website repo, run the following from within the repository to install all required packages
bundle install

Running Jekyll

To run it in dev mode

bundle exec jekyll serve

To run as prod

export JEKYLL_ENV=production

How to add support for Third parties:

https://learn.cloudcannon.com/jekyll-third-parties/

Deploy Jekyll blog on netlify

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/10/28/a-step-by-step-guide-jekyll-3.0-on-netlify/

Publish Jekyll to dev.to

https://kodaman2.github.io/blog/How-to-Setup-a-Jekyll-Blog/