Steps to Create a Hugo Site
Step 1. “hugo new site [path]” creates a skeleton site directory structure. Navigate to the directory where you would like to keep your hugo website.
Step 2. In this folder, create a folder called “getting-started”
Step 3. Open this folder with VS Code.
Step 4. Run the command “hugo new site ./” . You will see the following files in the getting-started folder.
Getting Started folder
Now before continuing the steps we need to understand structure of a Hugo site first. We will be continuing the steps after understanding the structure of a Hugo site.
Static Site Generation with Hugo
Hugo is a fast and modern static site generator written in Golang. Hugo is the world’s fastest static site generator, wondering what a static site generator is? will explain it in the Third paragraph, till then let’s discuss Hugo. Hugo is primarily written in Golang, But you don’t need to know Golang to work in Hugo. Website generation in Hugo is very simple and straightforward, only prerequisites are HTML and CSS. It was created by Bjørn Erik Pedersen, also known as “bep,” its first release was on July 17, 2013.