TIL: Building a simple site using Hugo

Today I learned how to build a simple site using Hugo.

For the initial setup, install hugo then create a new site.

    brew install hugo
    hugo new site my-website

In the directory that has been created, initialise a git repo, and add the theme of your choice as a submodule. I chose this nice theme papermod.

git init
git submodule add https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod themes/PaperMod

You can use hugo new to create a post:

hugo new posts/today-i-learned.md

and populate the newly created markdown file with some content

---
title: "TIL: Building a simple site using Hugo"
date: 2022-11-14T13:55:09Z
categories: [development, learning]
tags: [hugo, content]
draft: true
---

Today I learned how to...

Then run the server locally (allowing drafts).

hugo server -D

To build static pages to the public directory, simply run

hugo