Hugo VS actions-hugo

This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the ability to create excerpts from your markdown content in 1 line or thereabouts.

Hugo

Hugo is a popular static site generator specifically designed to create websites and documentation lightning-fast. Its minimalist approach, emphasis on speed, and ease of use have made it popular among developers, technical writers, and anybody looking to construct high-quality websites without the complexity of typical CMS platforms.

As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) or Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), hosted on GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or GitLab Pages (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/), would be a good match. If you set up GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to do the build and deploy (see e.g. https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), your normal workflow will simply be to edit markdown and do a git push to make your changes live. There are a number of pre-built themes (e.g. https://themes.gohugo.io/) you can use, and these are realtively straightforward to tweak to your requirements.

Create the technical documentation of your project You can use any of the following options: * A wiki, like the ArchWiki that uses MediaWiki * Read the Docs, used by projects like Setuptools. Check Awesome Read the Docs for more examples. * Create a website * Create a blog, like the documentation of Blowfish, a theme for Hugo.

Doing this made me appreciate existing SSGs like Hugo and Next.js even more👏👏

I suggest hugo: https://gohugo.io/

Generates a completely static website from MD (and other formats) files; also handles themes (including a lot of them rendering well on mobile), and different types of content - posts, articles, etc. - depending on the theme.

It's open source and, being completely static, cheap as fuck to self host.

I would suggest looking into static site generators. Some popular examples, which are used myself are: - Hugo: https://gohugo.io/ - Jekyll: https://jekyllrb.com

You can build your Hugo site in your Github Actions, e.g. like in https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-hugo, then push the static pages to your server

Documentation provides an example workflow file that uses GitHub Actions for Hugo action in the "Build Hugo With GitHub Action" section. It is ok to use it, but I will use combination of 2 examples (1, 2) from GitHub Actions for Hugo's README because it has one for projects using PostCSS.

If the data fetch from previous step succeeds, the workflow continues by building the static website with Hugo. Hugo is setup using action peaceiris/actions-hugo. When the files are ready, the result is published to GitHub pages, using another GitHub action, peaceiris/actions-gh-pages.

Luckily, there is a workflow for it. By implementing peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2 on my GitHub workflow, I was able to achieve what I wanted to do. Simple as that.

Less is more IMO. A Github Action using Hugo to deploy to GH pages.

For more information about the actions used and their options, please see Hugo and Github pages on Github.

I am looking for someone who can help me, pro bono, to: - set up this site using GitHub Pages - set up Hugo SSG (https://gohugo.io) using Jane (https://github.com/xianmin/hugo-theme-jane) as the theme - set up automatic building using GitHub actions perhaps using https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-hugo - set up Giscus (https://giscus.app) for comments (may need to fork theme, if so try to up a steam a PR also so a separate fork does not need to be maintained.) - set up banner art and profile picture (may need to fork theme, if so try to up a steam a PR also so a separate fork does not need to be maintained.) - set up SEO, RSS, favicon, Analytics, etc.

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I set up Hugo with peaceiris/actions-hugo. The build step afterwards runs the command