Ben Balter • 6/30/2022

Helpful 404s for Jekyll (and GitHub Pages)

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This technical article explains how to implement a user-friendly 404 page for static sites built with Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. It details a JavaScript/TypeScript solution that fetches the site's sitemap, calculates the edit distance (Levenshtein distance) from the requested invalid URL, and dynamically suggests the closest matching page to help visitors find the content they intended to reach.

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