Medium Go Project: How make an static website using HuGo?

Hello world 👋, my name is Francisco, fcoterroba on the internet and today I come to bring you a project that you like so much because we put aside all the theory that we already know (or should know) and we put this theory into action to make a practical project.

With this, we know, that we fatten our CV NOT only with knowledge and titles (regulated and non-regulated) but we also have projects that could be perfectly real and valid in any company in the sector.

Today we are going to do a medium level project on Go (GoLang), the famous programming language developed by Google in 2009. We are not going to go into much more detail about the language because, if you want to learn more about how it came about and the first steps with this one, I recommend this other post I made some time ago

The project that we are going to carry out is a project in which we are going to make a static web with HuGo, a famous language library that allows us to make static webs in a very simple way.

I remind you that a while ago I uploaded a video to my YouTube channel in which I show the installation of some smart bulbs capable of being controlled using the Google assistant or mobile. Here is the video in case you haven't seen it yet:

Finally, before starting, I show you one of my latest videos that I made for TikTok. It is the 3rd part of a series of videos in which I show my favorite songs from this Eurovision 2023.

@fcoterroba Mis canciones favoritas de Eurovisión 2023 PARTE 3 #eurovision #eurovision2023 #fyp #parati @Eurovision @Eurovisión TVE @Piqued Jacks @TVORCHI ♬ original sound – fcoterroba

Now yes, let's start!

First step: Installing the environment

As with almost any programming project I usually do, the first and most important thing is to install the right environment. To do this, we must install Go following the instructions given in its own webpage and a code editor. I always use VSCodium.

Once we have done these two things, we will have all our equipment correctly configured to start programming. Simply, to make sure the correct installation of the language, we will open a terminal and write:

go version

Second step: Initializing the project

Next, since HuGo already comes as one of the "basic" parts of the language, we will simply have to perform a quickstart, enter the directory that creates us and initialize it in git since later we will add some submodules

hugo new site quickstart
cd quickstart
git init

Next, we choose some of the hundreds of themes that we have available on the page of Hugo. I'll use "bilberry", cloning it into themes directory and adding the respectively configuration to config.toml

For last, with hugo server we can go up our website in a local way

Third step: Fill out the web with content

What would web pages in general be if they had no content?

Well, that's right, the part that involved more "programming" we have already done, so now, it only remains to put some posts on the website.

To do this, we must create a new file using the command hugo new posts/nombrepágina.md edit the last command to serve up the server with the mark: buildDrafts

Last step: finalizing configurations

To finish, we save all the changes we have made, and that's it.

If, for example, we want to upload this so that it can be seen beyond the localhost, we simply upload the entire directory to a host like GitHub pages.

Take a look at the last steps we did in our post on the statci website with Python since the steps are the same.

And this has been all for today. Thank you for reaching the end, I hope you have served and liked it. See you soon!

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