Create Hugo Website
Pre-requisites
Create a new Hugo website
- Create a new Hugo website :
hugo new site <website-name>
- Go to the website directory :
cd <website-name>
- Initialize a new git repository :
git init
- I am using the Relearn theme.
- By followong the docs here you customize & setup your website locally.
- Once you are done with the setup, you can build the website using
hugo
command. - This will generate a
public
folder in your website directory. - This folder contains all the static files for your website and is ready to be deployed.
Git setup
-
Create 2 seperate repositories for the website (public folder) and the other source code.
-
Add the public folder to the
.gitignore
file in the source code repository. -
Add the source code repository as a submodule in the public folder.
cd public
git init && git add . && git commit -m "Initial commit"
git submodule add <source-code-repo-url> <path-to-source-code-repo>
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Push the public folder to a remote repository (I am using GitLab)