Hugo

This guide shows you how to deploy a Hugo application to Edgio.

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Install the Edgio CLI

If you have not already done so, install the Edgio CLI.

With npm:

1npm i -g @layer0/cli

With yarn:

Bash
1yarn global add @layer0/cli

Create a new Hugo app

Step 1: Install Hugo

Bash
1brew install hugo
2# or
3port install hugo

To verify your new install:

1hugo version

Step 2: Create a New Site

1hugo new site quickstart

Step 3: Add a Theme

See themes.gohugo.io for a list of themes to consider. This quickstart uses the beautiful Ananke theme.

First, download the theme from GitHub and add it to your site’s themes directory:

Bash
1cd quickstart
2git init
3git submodule add https://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke

Note for non-git users:

If you do not have git installed, you can download the archive of the latest version of this theme from: https://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke/archive/master.zip
Extract that .zip file to get a “gohugo-theme-ananke-master” directory.
Rename that directory to “ananke”, and move it into the “themes/” directory.

Then, add the theme to the site configuration:

Bash
1echo theme = \"ananke\" >> config.toml

You can manually create content files (for example as content/<CATEGORY>/<FILE>.<FORMAT>) and provide metadata in them, however you can use the new command to do a few things for you (like add title and date):

1hugo new posts/my-first-post.md

Step 5: Start the Hugo server

1hugo server -D

Configuring your Hugo app for Edgio

Create a package.json at the root of your project with the following:

JSON
1{
"name": "hugo",
"version": "1.0.0",
"scripts": {
  "build": "hugo -D",
  "deploy": "0 deploy"
},
"dependencies": {},
"devDependencies": {}
10}

Initialize your project

In the root directory of your project run 0 init:

10 init

This will automatically update your package.json and add all of the required Edgio dependencies and files to your project. These include:

The @layer0/core package - Allows you to declare routes and deploy your application on Edgio
The @layer0/prefetch package - Allows you to configure a service worker to prefetch and cache pages to improve browsing speed
layer0.config.js - A configuration file for Edgio
routes.js - A default routes file that sends all requests to Hugo.

Configure the routes

Update routes.js at the root of your project to the following:

JavaScript
1// This file was added by layer0 init.
2// You should commit this file to source control.
3
4import { Router } from '@layer0/core/router'
5
6export default new Router()
7  // Prevent search engine bot(s) from indexing
8  // Read more on: https://docs.layer0.co/guides/cookbook#blocking-search-engine-crawlers
9  .noIndexPermalink()
10  .static('public', ({ cache }) => {
11    cache({
12      edge: {
13        maxAgeSeconds: 60 * 60 * 60 * 365,
14        forcePrivateCaching: true,
15      },
16      browser: {
17        maxAgeSeconds: 0,
18        serviceWorkerSeconds: 60 * 60 * 24,
19      },
20    })
21  })

Refer to the Routing guide for the full syntax of the routes.js file and how to configure it for your use case.

Run the Hugo app locally on Edgio

Create a production build of your app by running the following in your project’s root directory:

1npm run build

Test your app with the App Platform on your local machine by running the following command in your project’s root directory:

10 dev

Load the site http://127.0.0.1:3000

Deploying