# Blogging with Julia code blocks
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, web
**Created:** [March 3, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419 "2017-03-03T04:23:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/1 "2017-03-03T04:23:41Z")
I started a blog ([https://juliohm.github.io](https://juliohm.github.io)) where I am planning to use Julia for my examples. GitHub Pages and Jekyll are the recommended tools by GitHub and many people from the R community have developed plugins for running R code directly when the website is built:
- [http://www.sciviews.org/blog/The-SciViews-Jekyll-Template/](http://www.sciviews.org/blog/The-SciViews-Jekyll-Template/)
- [http://ryankuhn.net/blog/How-To-Use-Plotly-With-Jekyll](http://ryankuhn.net/blog/How-To-Use-Plotly-With-Jekyll)
I wonder if someone knows how to get Julia code working in a similar way, that is, I could write a snippet of Julia inside of a block like
> ```julia
> ```
and have the block and results printed on the webpage.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/2 "2017-03-03T08:46:44Z")
AFAIK [Nikola](https://getnikola.com/), another static site generator, works with Jupyter notebooks.
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### Author:  [@mpastell](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mpastell)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/3 "2017-03-03T10:29:11Z")
You could also use [Weave](https://github.com/mpastell/weave.jl) with a custom template.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/4 "2017-03-03T12:05:42Z")
Is there an example that integrates [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) with `Weave.jl` for blogging?
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### Author:  [@mpastell](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mpastell)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/5 "2017-03-03T13:24:09Z")
Not that I know of. Probably the easiest way is just to convert to from `.jmd` format to markdown. There is a script for calling `weave` from command line [https://github.com/mpastell/Weave.jl/blob/master/bin/weave.jl](https://github.com/mpastell/Weave.jl/blob/master/bin/weave.jl) so that’s easier to use with Makefiles (although I need to update it to support all current input parameters, feel free to open an issue to remind me if you want to use it and something is missing).
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/6 "2017-03-03T15:15:35Z")
Thanks, I opened an issue. But I don’t insist on Hugo, so if there is an example of how to get `Weave.jl` to work with any static site generator (eg Jekyll) it would be useful.
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/7 "2017-03-03T15:56:21Z")
Thanks for sharing Weave @mpastell, I think it is my best bet. I have to figure out how to run it and paste the HTML in place. Also wondering how to make it work with GitHub pages, if I need to install Julia there too.
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/8 "2017-03-03T16:00:16Z")
@mpastell, Jekyll supports plugins in case we need to add one for Weave there. Do you have experience with it?
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/9 "2017-03-03T17:01:05Z")
[Figured it out](https://tpapp.github.io/post/julia-post.html) with Hugo. Will work out the quirks and make it public soon.
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/10 "2017-03-04T17:00:05Z")
If someone can figure out a solution with Jekyll, that would be highly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/11 "2017-03-05T03:47:07Z")
@oxinabox has a Jekyll blog which has syntax highlighting. You might want to look at his repo.
If there’s a way to use GeSHi with Jekyll, then a version of this would work.
> **[Wordpress Julia Syntax Highlighting - Stochastic Lifestyle](http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/wordpress-julia-syntax-highlighting/)**
>
> using Julia print("Test for Julia") A = \[0 1 ; 0 1\]; Syntax highlighting in Julia exists? Yes, you can make it work even though no plugins currently support it. The way I was able to get it to work was to use the WP-GeSHi-Highlight WordPress plugin...
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/12 "2017-03-05T03:54:03Z")
Thank you @ChrisRackauckas, my main concern is the output, I will see if someone has written a Jekyll plugin for that, I remember finding one for TiKZ that basically runs pdflatex and puts the output in HTML: [https://gist.github.com/hack-ghost/6139753](https://gist.github.com/hack-ghost/6139753)
Maybe we could adapt it to run Weave.jl instead.
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### Author:  [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/13 "2017-03-05T04:26:55Z")
You can use something like this to transform Julia code from Jupyter notebooks to HTML, and use that?
[https://github.com/ChrisRackauckas/JupyterSite](https://github.com/ChrisRackauckas/JupyterSite)
But something from Weave.jl would likely be more elegant.
FYI, the output that comes out of this is quite horrid. The Jupyter auto-conversion creates some pretty nasty HTML and LaTeX to do it’s coloring, so I’d only use it if it’s copy/pasted
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/14 "2017-03-05T04:34:54Z")
Thank you @ChrisRackauckas, I am really hoping to find a cleaner way, maybe I should ask in Jekyll discourse…
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### Author:  [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/15 "2017-03-05T04:38:35Z")
I took a look at @oxinabox 's setup and it’s pretty clean. You just say where to start and end highlighting. See this:
[https://github.com/oxinabox/oxinabox.github.io/blob/master/\_posts/2017-01-24-JuliaML-and-TensorFlow-Tuitorial.md](https://github.com/oxinabox/oxinabox.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2017-01-24-JuliaML-and-TensorFlow-Tuitorial.md)
for this:
[http://white.ucc.asn.au/2017/01/24/JuliaML-and-TensorFlow-Tuitorial.html](http://white.ucc.asn.au/2017/01/24/JuliaML-and-TensorFlow-Tuitorial.html)
What is that missing? Maybe we can find a quick solution.
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/16 "2017-03-05T04:43:24Z")
It is awesome, and definitely better than what I have now, I was just wondering if we could make it literate: write the code and get the result in HTML directly. @oxinabox solution is pasting the output manually, I think I will go with it.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/17 "2017-03-05T06:15:08Z")
I imagine that also with Jekyll you can write your code in literate `.jmd` files, with YAML front matter, call `weave.jl` to generate the `.md` files, and then use `jekyll` to generate the static pages. That’s my workflow with Hugo, the hard part was dealing with the paths of generated plots.
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/18 "2017-03-05T16:16:28Z")
This is how my Julia code is looking like:
> **[Flipping coins in continuous time: The Poisson process](https://juliohm.github.io/science/coin-flipping/)**
>
> In this post, I would like to contrast two ways of thinking about a coin flip process—one of which is very intuitive and one of which can be very useful for certain applications. This insight is inspired on a stochastic modeling class by Ramesh...
The syntax isn’t quite right and I can’t have the output generated automatically 😢
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### Author:  [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/19 "2017-03-05T16:47:07Z")
Don’t forget to submit the feed to JuliaBloggers 🙂
[http://www.juliabloggers.com/julia-bloggers-submit-rss-feed/](http://www.juliabloggers.com/julia-bloggers-submit-rss-feed/)
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/blogging-with-julia-code-blocks/2419/20 "2017-03-05T17:53:57Z")
Nice blog post! Maybe you can extend it to give an example of the continuous-time process?
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