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title: "Migrating to Hugo"
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date: 2017-10-24T20:30:43-04:00
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The migration is complete! I made the decision in the past week to move away from Middleman. While Middleman certainly has its strengths, it was still a process that was a little too manual. I found myself still having to code up HTML/CSS/JS and handle a lot of the web development side of blogging vs. getting to focus on content. I was unhappy with my site because I couldn't control how it looked or functioned without a massive amount of work, and after this work was complete I was too tired to actually blog! That was a major problem for me, because regularly blogging has been a goal of mine for years now. So I needed something simpler that handled this boilerplate development for me, allowing me to focus on weaving thoughts into nice coherent posts for my blog.
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Enter Hugo, the static site generator written entirely in Go. How simple is it would you say? So simple that all I really did was install Hugo, download a theme, configure that theme and BOOM here I am writing content on my new platform.
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I plan on using Hugo for my blog from now on, and will hopefully actively contribute to the project on Github.
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## Getting Hugo on Fedora
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My Hugo setup is currently on a Fedora 27 laptop. I wanted to share some of the steps I followed to get Hugo up and running.
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## Snapcraft
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Snapcraft and snaps are a method of package management created by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Snaps are a means of isolating applications in a self-contained environment that includes everything that the application needs to run. Once you have downloaded the Hugo snap, you will be able to start working with Hugo.
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After following the snapd installation instructions at [snapcraft.io](snapcraft.io), run
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```bash
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snap install hugo
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hugo new site new-site
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cd new-site
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```
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This will create your new Hugo site at `new-site` and change into it. After setting up a Hugo site, a good next step is to set a theme for the site. Visit [the themes site](themes.gohugo.io) and follow the instructions for downloading your theme and configuring it. My theme is Blackburn.
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And there you have it! I know this post was short but I truly didn't do much when setting up Hugo! Let me know if there is anything you'd like to see me cover in my next post. Thanks! |