HUGO

Links

• Official Site

• Blogs

Commands

• Install: yay -S hugo

• Help: hugo help

• New Site: hugo new site <site-name>

• New Post: hugo new posts/<post-name>.md

  • Dir post is not mandatory, can be changed

  • Adds file with date-name.md and some front-matter

• Build: hugo

• Serve: hugo server [options]

  • -D for drafts enabled
  • -p
  • –navigateToChanged

Directory structure

/hugo-site
├── archetypes
├── content
├── data
├── layouts
└── static

• archetypes: hugo new <archetype> Set custom front-matter and content (markdown)

• content: meat of site (markdown)

  • Also determines relative urls and layout used depending on dir name and structure

• data: lotsa shared front-matter of sorts (json, yaml, toml)

• layouts: templates for content (html)

• static: (img, css, js blah)

hugo without theme

Hugo pulls data from content/, data/, static/ and structures it by templates defined in layouts/ dir.

Content -> Layout mapping: Template Lookup Order

NOTE: Leaving in favor of 11ty, couldn’t get a single page up without writing 4 more files and skimming docs and posts for hours. Not what I am looking for.