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title: Hugo in 5 minutes
tags: Templates, Talk
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# Hugo in 5 minutes

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## Why static site generator?

- simple (I mean, really simple) compared to Drupal
- energy efficiency
- free hosting

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## Why HUGO?

[comment]: <> (There are several static site generators...)

- written in Go (developers provide static binaries for all OSs)
- on Linux and MacOS installation done by `brew install hugo`
- feature-complete
- image transformations
- asset (JS, SCSS) compilation
- Go templates (somewhat similar to Twig)
- very fast (allows hot reloading during development)

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## Automatic builds

- you don't need to use CLI to rebuild site manually when updating content
- Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket provide pipelines
- Github pages example:

name: push commit to github pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          submodules: true
          fetch-depth: 0
          lfs: true

      - name: Setup Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
        with:
          hugo-version: '0.70.0'
          extended: true

      - name: Build
        run: hugo --minify

      - name: Deploy
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        with:
          deploy_key: ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_DEPLOY_KEY }}
          publish_dir: ./public
          publish_branch: gh-pages  # deploying branch

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## Going further

- https://gohugo.io/documentation/
- https://themes.gohugo.io/
- CMSs:
- https://forestry.io
- https://www.netlifycms.org/