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# Victor Hugo Fork
**A Hugo boilerplate for creating truly epic websites**
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This is a boilerplate for using [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) as a static site generator and [Webpack](https://webpack.js.org/) as your asset pipeline.
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Setup to use [PostCSS](http://postcss.org/), [PurgeCSS](https://purgecss.com) and [Babel](https://babeljs.io/) for CSS and JavaScript compiling/transpiling.
Also uses [Swup](https://swup.org.js) page transitions and pre-loading of pages.
This project is released under the [MIT license](LICENSE). Please make sure you understand its implications and guarantees.
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## :wrench: Todo
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* Incorporate a basic starter theme.
## :crystal_ball: Purpose
For standalone sites that require a custom look not provided by an external theme.
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## Usage
### :exclamation: Prerequisites
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You need to have the latest/LTS [node](https://nodejs.org/en/download/) and [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm) versions installed in order to use Victor Hugo.
Next step, clone this repository and run:
```bash
npm install
```
This will take some time and will install all packages necessary to run Victor Hugo and its tasks.
### :construction_worker: Development
While developing your website, use:
```bash
npm start
```
or for developing your website with `hugo server --buildDrafts --buildFuture`, use:
```bash
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npm run preview
```
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Then visit http://localhost:3000/ _- or a new browser windows popped-up already -_ to preview your new website. Webpack Dev Server will automatically reload the CSS or refresh the whole page, when stylesheets or content changes.
### :package: Static build
To build a static version of the website inside the `/dist` folder, run:
```bash
npm run build
```
To get a preview of posts or articles not yet published, run:
```bash
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npm run build:preview
```
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See [package.json](package.json#L8) for all tasks.
## Structure
```
|--site // Everything in here will be built with hugo
| |--content // Pages and collections - ask if you need extra pages
| |--data // YAML data files with any data for use in examples
| |--layouts // This is where all templates go
| | |--partials // This is where includes live
| | |--index.html // The index page
| |--static // Files in here ends up in the public folder
|--src // Files that will pass through the asset pipeline
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| |--css // Webpack will bundle imported css separately
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| |--index.js // index.js is the webpack entry for your css & js assets
```
## Basic Concepts
You can read more about Hugo's template language in their documentation here:
https://gohugo.io/templates/overview/
The most useful page there is the one about the available functions:
https://gohugo.io/templates/functions/
For assets that are completely static and don't need to go through the asset pipeline,
use the `site/static` folder. Images, font-files, etc, all go there.
Files in the static folder end up in the web root. So a file called `site/static/favicon.ico`
will end up being available as `/favicon.ico` and so on...
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The `src/index.js` file is the entrypoint for webpack and will be built to `/dist/main.js`
You can use **ES6** and use both relative imports or import libraries from npm.
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Any CSS file imported into the `index.js` will be run through Webpack, compiled with [PostCSS Next](http://cssnext.io/), and
minified to `/dist/[name].[hash:5].css`. Import statements will be resolved as part of the build.
## Environment variables
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To separate the development and production _- aka build -_ stages, all gulp tasks run with a node environment variable named either `development` or `production`.
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You can access the environment variable inside the theme files with `getenv "NODE_ENV"`. See the following example for a conditional statement:
{{ if eq (getenv "NODE_ENV") "development" }}You're in development!{{ end }}
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All tasks starting with _build_ set the environment variable to `production` - the other will set it to `development`.
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## 😸