Hugo

The process traditionally is:

1. create a new blog article, edit it some, save.
2. run hugo on the command line to generate the static site.
3. copy/sync the public directory onto your webserver.

Needing a webserver, build environment and text editor is a bit of hassle. It’s all a bit manual too. I’ve previously blogged about hosting on S3, but I wanted to see if a static blog could be managed entirely on free/hosted services.

Been neglecting this blog for a while (check: blog cliché), but just migrated across from Pelican to Hugo, so thought this warrants a quick “check this out” post…

Hugo?

There’s a bit of a buzz around Hugo in the (albeit niche) world of static-blog-generation-tools. Though Pelican has been great, it feels like the world is slowly moving on from python.

Or maybe I’m just a sucker for new stuff. :-)

Hugo is easy to install, fast, well documented and supports live reload in browser. I didn’t get how useful live reload would be until using it. Even with simple markdown formatting it’s really useful for previewing and proof-reading content.