How to create a blog with Hugo

— Written by Ilan Cohen — 1 min read
#blog  #Hugo 
Table of Contents

Prerequisites

Install Hugo

On Debian, we can install Hugo from the official repository:

$ sudo apt-get install hugo

Setup

Create a Site

Create the directory structure for your blog in the ilanco.dev directory.

$ hugo new site ilanco.dev

Change into the new directory ilanco.dev and initialize a new git repository.

$ cd ilanco.dev
$ git init

Add a Theme

We’re going to add the hugo-blog-awesome theme to our blog as a module.

$ hugo mod init github.com/USER/REPO
$ hugo mod get github.com/hugo-sid/hugo-blog-awesome

Replace USER/REPO with your GitHub username and repository name where this project will live.

For Hugo to use the theme, add the following to the main configuration hugo.toml:

[module]
  [[module.imports]]
    path = "github.com/hugo-sid/hugo-blog-awesome"

Run the Hugo Development Server

$ hugo server -D -F

The -D argument tells Hugo to include drafts, while the -F argument instructs Hugo to include future dated posts that are published

Next, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:1313.