The wxWidgets website is built using Jekyll, using Node.js and Grunt to compile all static assets including the Bootstrap library the site is built on along with the Font Awesome icon set using LESS stylesheets. Most of the content on the website is written using Markdown, making it extremely easy to write and maintain.

We've prepared a Vagrant configuration that can automatically install and configure all dependencies listed above. So it's a bit more to download, but is the quickest and most reliable way to dive right in if you aren't already familiar with Jekyll, Node.js, and Grunt. Simply download and install both VirtualBox and Vagrant, and run the following from a command prompt in this checkout:

$ vagrant up

This will take a while to complete the first time, just be patient. After your Vagrant box is up and running, you can SSH in by running:

$ vagrant ssh

This checkout will be shared with this virtual machine at /vagrant, so you can go there now and run grunt to compile all assets, and run jekyll to start up the built-in webserver that will automatically re-generate all pages any time it's corresponding file is changed here.

$ cd /vagrant
$ npm install
$ grunt
$ jekyll serve --watch

Note that you only need to run npm install once per new checkout. Now you can edit content at will and see the immediate feedback by pulling up the website running inside of your Vagrant box: http://localhost:4000/

If you only want to modify some page contents and are not going to touch any CSS or JavaScript code, you can avoid installing Grunt as it is only really needed to produce the minified CSS and JavaScript files which can be retrieved from the main site:

$ curl http://www.wxwidgets.org/assets/css/global.min.css > assets/css/global.min.css
$ curl http://www.wxwidgets.org/assets/js/global.min.js > assets/js/global.min.js

Then you only have to install Jekyll and run it in order to preview your changes locally before pushing them out.