Guides & Tutorials

Deploy Your Hugo App Quick

Guides & Tutorials

Deploy Your Hugo App Quick

Ready to get your Hugo app to the world fast? With our new Hugo Quickstart Template you can create and deploy a bare-bones Hugo app and have it deployed for everyone to see oh so quick!

Here is the info:

Clone + Develop

Clone this repo to make it yours with one of these options:

  • Click the 'Use this template' button at the top of the page
  • Or via the command line git clone https://github.com/netlify-templates/hugo-quickstart

Once you have the repo locally, switch to the project's main directory and start the Hugo sever with this command:

  • hugo server -D

Then you can head to http://localhost:1313/ to take a look at what you've created. You can make changes and watch the magic happen aka watch your live preview update.

Alternatively, you can run this locally with the Netlify CLI's by running the netlify dev command for more options like receiving a live preview to share (netlify dev --live) and the ability to test Netlify Functions and redirects.

Share it with the World

Ready to put it up on Content Delivery Networks (CDN) closest to your audience? Let's get it deployed!

  • install the Netlify CLI globally npm install netlify-cli -g
  • Run hugo
  • use the netlify deploy command for a deploy preview link or netlify deploy --prod to deploy to production

Other deployment Options

There a few other fun ways to get your site out into the world:

  • Use the Netlify CLI's create from template command netlify sites:create-template hugo-quickstart which will create a repo, Netlify project, and deploy it
  • If you want to utilize continuous deployment through GitHub webhooks, run the Netlify command netlify init to create a new project based on your repo or netlify link to connect your repo to an existing project

Go Forth & Create

You're all set now to make it yours and share whatever it is you're stoked to get out into the world. We can't wait to see what you create, show us what you made @Netlify! Happy coding 👩🏻‍💻!

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