Writing a New Blog With Hugo

As you can see from this post, I’ve just launched a new blog.

It already includes a few old articles published elsewhere, here and there, and I’ll try to publish new ones regularly.

But let’s get technical !

This blog has been developed using the following tools:

• Hugo as the blog engine: https://gohugo.io/
• Github to store the code, compile the production version and deploy on Github Pages . You can take a look at the source code here : https://github.com/fpetitit/blog
• OVH Cloud to manage the domain name

Why did I choose Hugo?

There are a huge number of blog generation tools available. For example, I used Jekyll for a long time for similar purposes. I’m also inevitably thinking of Wordpress, which is heavy and complex but still a potential alternative, and which still adds a lot of possibilities.

Finally, I chose Hugo mainly because a web design site that I’ve been following closely for years recently made this choice. It’s Smashing Magazine, and they detail their migration in an article : https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/05/switch-wordpress-hugo/.

Well, OK, since then they’ve switched to TinyCMS. But TinyCMS was far too heavy for my little blog ;)