Here you’ll learn how to setup your Hugo serve, is very useful if you work with static pages.

Hugo

Is a simple blog, static site generator for personal projects.
Hugo is written in Golang.
See more info here.

Installing

For installing Hugo, we just need install some dependencies:

• Golang: Programming language, view my installation tutorial here.

• Hugo:

  go get -v github.com/gohugoio/hugo
  

Creating a static web

• If hugo exe doesnt generate, go to $GOPATH/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo and run:

  go build -o hugo main.go
  

• Then, mv hugo binary to go/bin src.

Creating a new project on your local machine:

hugo new site webApp

Note: by default hugo doesnt have theme, in other words, when you run hugo serve, it shows a blank page.

So, we need to install a theme to test hugo serve.

Themes

Then, in the theme/ directory, download theme from repository:

cd webApp/themes
git clone https://github.com/saey55/hugo-elate-theme

Next, copy the file themes/hugo-elate-theme/exampleSite/config.toml to the main config.toml in your site.

You can look for more themes here.

Serve

Finally, start the static web by default in port 1313:

hugo serve

or, in a specific port and host (Note: if you use port 80 or 443, use sudo):

sudo hugo serve --port 80 --bind localhost

In your favourite browser, enter to localhost:1313: