Hugo Craft

This is a ready-to-go Hugo-based blog publishing system. The styling has a lot of inspiration from the blog of Chris Siebenmann which I think excels in simplicity and minimalism. It uses mage for an OS-agnostic build system to make it easy to chain commands. It has a simple search and comments ready-to-go.

Features

• Integrated search (try it)
• Integrated comments at the bottom of each post
• Automatic image captioning using markdown
• Very fast (base page ~3.9kB)
• Easy to get started and run

Get started

You need to have Go installed. Then install dependencies:

$ go get github.com/magefile/mage
$ go get github.com/spf13/viper

The install Hugo by just downloading the latest release.

Now you should start a new repo and add hugocraft.

$ mkdir my-blog && cd my-blog
$ git init 
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/schollz/hugocraft.git
$ git fetch upstream
$ git merge upstream/master

Now you are ready to use!

How to use

Writing

To get started, you can make a new post:

$ mage new

You’ll be prompted for a name and then the post will be created. You can open the post in your favorite editor to edit it.

Or, if you like using vim you can just do

$ mage write

When you want to push your latest changes just do

$ mage push

IPFS publishing

First install ipfs and make sure you have wget. Run your ipfs instance (ipfs daemon) Then you can easily publish to IPFS using

$ mage ipfs

which will return your hash. Now you can view your site at https://ipfs.ip/ipfs/<your hash>.

Github publishing

And when you are ready to publish you need to set your repo name. Goto the config.toml and just change githubPublish to your Github repo, e.g. user/user.github.io. Then you can publish by just doing

$ mage publish

which will build and minify the results into the tmp/ directory.

Get latest hugocraft

After you’ve forked this repo, you can update with

$ mage update

which will do the following commands to merge the upstream hugocraft fork:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/schollz/hugocraft.git
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/master