• Forked Razon Yang’s Hugo Bootstrap Theme

  • Install Hugo (on Linux)

    • Download a tarball from Hugo’s release page. Extended version is needed. For example https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.99.1/hugo_extended_0.99.1_Linux-64bit.tar.gz
      • Untar it and copy the hugo file over to a folder in your $PATH e.g. $HOME/.local/bin
    • snap install hugo --channel=extended (No longer recommended because snap autoupdates hugo versions)
      • NOTE: The extended channel is needed for this site build
      • Update with sudo snap refresh hugo --channel=extended
      • For more snap commands, see Snap Cheatsheet
    • See Hugo version with hugo version
      • hugo v0.92.1+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2022-01-27T15:08:20Z
    • Will need to install npm via apt-get

  • Create a new site from scratch (this site uses tag v0.79.1)

    1hugo new site sagar.se
2cd sagar.se/
3git submodule add git@github.com:sagarbehere/hugo-theme-bootstrap.git themes/hugo-theme-bootstrap

  • Create a .gitignore file and populate with

     1# Created by https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/hugo
 2# Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=hugo
 3
 4### Hugo ###
 5# Generated files by hugo
 6/public/
 7/resources/_gen/
 8/assets/jsconfig.json
 9hugo_stats.json
10
11# Executable may be added to repository
12hugo.exe
13hugo.darwin
14hugo.linux
15
16# Temporary lock file while building
17/.hugo_build.lock
18
19# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/hugo
20
21# npm assets
22package-lock.json
23node_modules/
24
25# ignore system files
26.DS_Store

  • Create configs

  • Create assets folder in site root and create a _custom.scss file for holding later tweaks 

    1mkdir -p assets/main/scss
2touch assets/main/scss/_custom.scss

  • Build the hugo site

    1hugo mod npm pack
2npm install

  • Create a git repo and start committing to github

    • git init
    • git add .
    • git commit
    • Log in to Github and create a new repository from the web interface
    • git remote add origin git@github.com:sagarbehere/sagar.se
    • git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main
    • git pull origin main --allow-unrelated-histories
    • git push -u origin main