Hugo Installation + Tutorial + Useful commands

hugo-commands.bash

# Hugo is a static site generator from spf13. 
# it is really simple, elegant and easy to install once we get around it.
# The following commands are mostly tested in OSX

brew install hugo

mkdir hugo-project

cd hugo-project

hugo new site .

# Runs hugo server in debug mode useful while learning 
hugo server --verbose 

# Create our own hugo theme
hugo new theme theme-name

# creates all your static files other than content to your public folder.
hugo --verbose 

# Important templates for hugo
# Home page template
# 1. themes/theme-name/layouts/index.html
# Single page template (article / post / blogpost)
# 2. themes/theme-name/layouts/_default/single.html
# List page template (article / post / blogpost)
# 3. themes/theme-name/layouts/_default/list.html

# Please see the Hugo documentation on template rendering for all the details on determining which template to use.