hugo-cli

A simple Node wrapper around hugo, the static site generator. It fetches the right hugo executable before piping all provided command line arguments to it.

Usage

$ npx hugo-cli -h
INFO hugo not found. Attempting to fetch it...
INFO fetched hugo v0.104.3
INFO extracting archive...
INFO hugo available, let's go!

hugo is the main command, used to build your Hugo site.

Hugo is a Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator
built with love by spf13 and friends in Go.

Complete documentation is available at http://gohugo.io/.

Usage:
  hugo [flags]
  hugo [command]

...

Download specific hugo version

If you want to download a specific hugo version, you can set HUGO_VERSION env before you run the command.

$ HUGO_VERSION=0.64.0 npx hugo-cli version
$ HUGO_VERSION=0.64.0/extended npx hugo-cli version

Integrations

Add to your build scripts in package.json to build you site from NodeJS:

  ...
  "scripts": {
    "build": "hugo"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "hugo-cli": "*"
  },
  ...

Execute directly via npx:

npx hugo-cli server

License

MIT