#HUGO GITHUB PAGES UPDATE#

What we want is Github Actions to run certain operations on a set schedule, build our website with hugo, and then trigger a Netlify deployment. This if often used for package and pipeline testing, but can also be used to build your website! GitHub Actions is a service that runs Continuous Integration, meaning that using a set-up file you can ask workers (computers run by GitHub) to do certain operations on your repository at certain triggers (at push, pull-requests or even on a schedule with crontab). How do you keep the files out of version control but rendered on your website?

#HUGO GITHUB PAGES UPDATE#

These are files I don’t want in my history, blowing up my repository size at every knit.Īnd at every knit is often in my case, as I update them daily through GitHub actions (I’ll get to that shortly) so that people can get update information about my research activities without me having to do too much work on that aspect of it. This page contains a plot of my publication citations, and also a knitted academic CV in pdf. In my case, I have a page with information about me. We won’t be re-knitting blogposts over and over and hence commit new images to version history, that would inflate our repository size pretty quickly, and we don’t want that.īut what if you want to have data on your website that does not live in the git history? So, for blogging etc, this is totally fine. This is fine and dandy for text files like markdown and Rmarkdown, csv data, and images that will not change often. It was easy to get started, harder to keep going.įor instance, to build on Netlify, you need all your content version controlled, in my case with git, and stored on GitHub. The less you are doing your self, the less you have to maintain, and long-term maintenance of things can take a toll.Īll of us adopting blogdown early on feel this acutely, there was absolutely some pains in updating themes and hugo and blogdown, and rendering of old pages etc. Well, there is definitely good reasons to let Netlify do all the work for you. Why build with GitHub actions and not let Netlify do all the job? Of course, once we are building with GitHub actions we could also just use GitHub pages to deploy, and I’ll show how you can do that too, even if I will keep using Netlify. As recommended there, set up a If you are using Namecheap, you will have records that look something like the image above.Lately, I’ve been doing some work in getting Hugo websites building through Github actions, and then have them deployed with Netlify. Configure an apex domain by adding IP addresses for Github Pages as instructed here.Note: the DNS check will initially be unsuccessful Add your custom domain under your Git repository’s Settings > Pages > Custom Domain as shown in the image above.Purchase your domain from the DNS provider such as Namecheap and GoDaddy.Update the base_url in config.yml to ' Link Custom Domain to Github Pages # Note: the content will be deployed to by default if not configured otherwise. Tar -C $/built-site and pushes the changes to the referenced branch gh-pages, which is a special branch that Github recognizes and uses to publish to your Github Pages site Ref: gh-pages path: built-site - name: Setup Hugo run: | curl -L -o /tmp/ '' Submodules: true - name: Checkout destination uses: if: github.ref = 'refs/heads/main' with:

Hugo github pages