Create Hugo Website

Pre-requisites

• Hugo installed on your machine docs here
• Git installed on your machine docs here

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>

• Push the public folder to a remote repository (I am using GitLab)