Update: Use Wercker. It is better.
While trying to make this little space in the web finally working, I set up dozens of different static site generators (Jekyll, Pelican, Nikola, Lektor, Sculpin..). I was even thinking about writing my own for some time. I tried wordpress and blogspot. But finally arrived at Hugo and it make my day much better.
Why I like it:
- Nice working on Windows (one ‘.exe’ file)
- Good documentation
Some things that could be better:
- Better deployment to Github Pages
Quick tips:
After some fight to publish it nicely to Github Pages, I tried to use automate deployment (Wecker tutorial on Hugo website doesn’t work out of the box, and my knowledge on CI is not good yet). Finally I settled with easiest solution - having two repositories.
- First repository is ‘User Page’ - ‘pbedn.github.io’. Please refer to pages docs about more info.
- Second is with source content of hugo - ‘hugo-blog’
How to maintain pushing to two repositories? I use GitKraken, so it is just few clicks. Additonaly I am all the time inside ‘hugo-blog’ directory.
When I create new content I run command
hugo serve -w -DWhen I want to push to github, firstly I create html files (notice parent ../directory)
hugo -d ../pbedn.github.ioAnd use GitKraken.
What if after running hugo serve I do not see anytinng in the public directory?
Sometimes it helps to run hugo with ‘-v’, it shows more verbose output. My solution was to copy theme files inside my main folder (sometimes you just have to copy static files).
Hugo commands I use:
serve A high performance webserver]
-D, --buildDrafts Include content marked as draft
-w, --watch Watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed
-d, --destination string Filesystem path to write files to
-v, --verbose Verbose output