Hugo Quickstart Template

This is a bare-bones Hugo project that has everything you need to quickly deploy it to Netlify.

Hate reading, here's a video: https://youtu.be/t-tsRxxYdpk

Love reading, here's blog post: https://www.netlify.com/blog/deploy-your-hugo-app-quick/

Table of Contents:

• Quick Setup + Deploy Option
• Regular Setup
  • Cloning + Install Packages
  • Deploying
• Styling
  • Notes on Styling
  • Remove Styling
• Hugo + Netlify Resources
• Testing
  • Included Default Testing
  • Removing Renovate
  • Removing Cypress
• Want to learn more?

Quick Setup + Deploy Option

Click this button and it will help you create a new repo, create a new Netlify project, and deploy!

Regular Setup

1. Cloning + Running Locally

• Clone this repo with one of these options:

  • Click the 'Use this template' button at the top of the page
  • Or via the command line git clone https://github.com/netlify-templates/hugo-quickstart

• Start the Hugo sever & check it out:

  • hugo server -D
  • go to http://localhost:1313/

Alternatively, you can run this locally with the Netlify CLI's by running the netlify dev command for more options like receiving a live preview to share (netlify dev --live) and the ability to test Netlify Functions and redirects.

2. Deploying

• Install the Netlify CLI globally npm install netlify-cli -g

• Run hugo

• Then use the netlify deploy for a deploy preview link or netlify deploy --prod to deploy to production

Here are a few other ways you can deploy this template:

• Use the Netlify CLI's create from template command netlify sites:create-template hugo-quickstart which will create a repo, Netlify project, and deploy it

• If you want to utilize continuous deployment through GitHub webhooks, run the Netlify command netlify init to create a new project based on your repo or netlify link to connect your repo to an existing project

Styling

We've added some modern styling to this template using Sass within an external stylesheet, this will allow you to easily remove our styling and add in your own.

If you decide that you want to keep our styling you can review our style notes below.

Notes on Styling

The variables below give you the ability to change the gradient colors of the blobs and are interpolated into the URL string of the background-img within the body.

// Controls the blob blur gradient colors within the main tag's svg
--top-right-blur-1: #2ebc92;
--top-right-blur-2: #ecbb50;
--bttm-left-blur-1: #ff3e89;
--bttm-left-blur-2: #0095cc;

Remove Styling

If you decide that our styling is not for you, all you'll need to do is remove the demo-styling.css file.

Hugo + Netlify Resources

Here are some resources to help you on your Hugo + Netlify coding fun!

• Hugo on Netlify Integration Page

Hope this template helps :) Happy coding 👩🏻‍💻!

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Testing

Included Default Testing

We’ve included some tooling that helps us maintain these templates. This template currently uses:

• Renovate - to regularly update our dependencies
• Cypress - to run tests against how the template runs in the browser
• Cypress Netlify Build Plugin - to run our tests during our build process

If your team is not interested in this tooling, you can remove them with ease!

Removing Renovate

In order to keep our project up-to-date with dependencies we use a tool called Renovate. If you’re not interested in this tooling, delete the renovate.json file and commit that onto your main branch.

Removing Cypress

For our testing, we use Cypress for end-to-end testing. This makes sure that we can validate that our templates are rendering and displaying as we’d expect. By default, we have Cypress not generate deploy links if our tests don’t pass. If you’d like to keep Cypress and still generate the deploy links, go into your netlify.toml and delete the plugin configuration lines:

[[plugins]]
  package = "netlify-plugin-cypress"
-  [plugins.inputs.postBuild]
-    enable = true
-
-  [plugins.inputs]
-    enable = false 

If you’d like to remove the netlify-plugin-cypress build plugin entirely, you’d need to delete the entire block above instead. And then make sure sure to remove the package from the dependencies using:

npm uninstall -D netlify-plugin-cypress

And lastly if you’d like to remove Cypress entirely, delete the entire cypress folder and the cypress.config.ts file. Then remove the dependency using:

npm uninstall cypress