Option for cdn for static assets

[weikinhuang]

Please include an option to use a cdn for jquery and font awesome to save on bandwidth costs when using a self hosted option.

• This is a question about using the theme.
• I believe this to be a bug with the theme --- not Jekyll, GitHub Pages or one of the bundled plugins.
• This is a feature request.
• I have updated all gems with bundle update.
• I have tested locally with bundle exec jekyll build.

[mmistakes]

Building an option to use a CDN version of jQuery would introduce several complexities to the theme I'm not comfortable adding.

As far as using a CDN version of Font Awesome, that's fairly easy to do. You have two options depending on how you installed the theme:

Installed as a theme gem

1. In the root of your site folder add _sass/vendor/font-awesome/_variables.scss
2. Uncomment line 7 to replace the local font path with the CDN version. $fa-font-path: "//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.6.3/fonts" !default;
3. Adding the local _variables.scss FA partial and uncommenting the path will override the scss partial bundled in the theme and use the CDN version of FA instead.

Installed by forking the MM repo

1. Uncomment line 7 _sass/vendor/font-awesome/_variables.scss

[weikinhuang]

Alright thanks!

[weikinhuang]

Actually I just tried it, and it doesn't seem to be picking up the local _sass/vendor/font-awesome/_variables.scss file. I'm using the gem version of the theme. I've tried overriding other files too in the vendor folder and it also doesn't seem to be picking up those changes either.

[mmistakes]

I'll have to test and see if I can reproduce.

There's a related issue open for local files in assets not overriding the gem ones #722. If that's the case here then there might be a regression bug with Jekyll that will need to be filled upstream.

[mmistakes]

I got it to work by copying the entire _sass/vendor/font-awesome/ folder to my local repo, then commenting // $fa-font-path: "../fonts" !default; and uncommenting $fa-font-path: "//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.6.3/fonts" !default;

Seems like the way Jekyll reads in local files to override the theme gem's versions gets confused when you start @importing levels deeper.

[weikinhuang]

That works, but still sucks to have to copy the entire directory into an otherwise empty repo. Thanks!

[mmistakes]

Agreed. Theme gems are still in their infancy so there are still some kinks to be worked out in Jekyll-land.

[weikinhuang]

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