Getting Started with Hugo

Holy Crap

Hugo docs are worse than I recall. This literally took me 3 or 4 hours. In the end the quickstart is beyond useless, to the point of harmful.

Just use the custom theme option to start and learn to make your own themes.

Here’s my quickstart

• Install Hugo’s binary
• Create a new site with hugo new site whatever
• When it asks about theme, just say to make a custom one.
• set that theme in the hugo.toml
• make a test post with hugo new posts/test.md (or whatever you want to call your content type)

Now you’ll have a super basic site. Customize the theme to your liking, I went with a tailwind integration which was a bit involved. You could do something similar or juse use dfirect css.

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This article was super helpful