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As you’ll see from the footer I’m using Hugo to deploy this blog. I’ve never used it before, but it seemed like a quick and easy way to setup a blog without having to write lots of CSS, HTML and MySQL etc.
“Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators.” - https://gohugo.io/
I’m figuring out how to use it as I go. But it seems to be pretty powerful so far, and I believe it can do some pretty cool stuff that I’m sure I will explore at some point down the road as this blog develops.
To host this site I’m using Azure Static Web Apps; for hobbies and personal sites like this one it’s a completely free offering.
Azure Static Web Apps integrate really nicely with GitHub Actions which I am using to store and control the code. Microsoft have a great guide for setting this up here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/publish-hugo
Using GitHub Actions with this is really neat and gives me the ability to easily update the contents of the site by creating PRs and completing them.
The Action code for this is pretty simple:
jobs:
build_and_deploy_job:
if: github.event_name == 'push' || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action != 'closed')
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Build and Deploy Job
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
submodules: true
- name: Build And Deploy
id: builddeploy
uses: Azure/static-web-apps-deploy@v1
with:
azure_static_web_apps_api_token: ${{ secrets.AZURE_STATIC_WEB_APPS_API_TOKEN }}
repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Used for GitHub integrations (i.e. PR comments)
action: "upload"
###### Repository/Build Configurations - These values can be configured to match you app requirements. ######
# For more information regarding Static Web App workflow configurations, please visit: https://aka.ms/swaworkflowconfig
app_location: "/" # App source code path
api_location: "api" # Api source code path - optional
output_location: "public" # Built app content directory - optional
###### End of Repository/Build Configurations ######
env:
HUGO_VERSION: 0.58.0
Come back soon for the next quest 🗡️🛡️