First Blog - Getting Started with Hugo
About Hugo#
This website was easily created using Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Hugo Quickstart and Installation#
To install Hugo on your macOS (using Homebrew)#
Pre-requisites:
- Ensure that you have Homebrew installed on your macOS prior to continuing.
With Homebrew installed, you can directly install Hugo by running:
brew install hugo
Validate hugo is installed:
hugo version
Create new site#
To create a new site:
hugo new site <site-name>
Then add a theme for your site:
cd <site-name>
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/jakewies/hugo-theme-codex.git themes/hugo-theme-codex
In my case, I used the theme hugo-theme-codex .
Follow the corresponding theme’s page to get specifics on theme configurations.
Create new blog post#
For my theme-specific instructions, to build a post
hugo new blog/<name-of-blog.md>
To publish the blog, you must set draft: false in the blog’s markdown file.
Start Hugo server#
From your site’s directory, start the Hugo server
hugo server -D