Build Websites with Hugo: Using with recent Hugo versions

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Hi friends.

If you’re reading the book and trying to follow along with the first chapter, you’ll immediately find some major differences. Hugo has evolved considerably since I wrote this book. Now when you generate a new Hugo theme, you get a fairly well-defined template with some sensible defaults, so you don’t have to spend too much time in the second chapter getting things working.

Some notable changes:

  • config.toml is now called hugo.toml. However, config.toml still works.
  • The archetypes/default.md file now uses a TOML front matter syntax instead of YAML, although YAML still works fine.
  • hugo new theme basic generates a theme with many of the partials filled in. You should still be able to copy the files as-is and things should work.

However, if you’re looking to follow the book explicitly, download a binary release from GitHub:

Hope this helps anyone who’s gotten stuck.

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@bphogan

I was able to get to Chapter 4 - and got stuck on Pulling Data from Remote Sources where I see that getJason has been deprecated

I tried rewriting opens source.html as follows:

{{ define "main"}}
    <h2>{{ .Title }}</h2>

    {{ .Content }}
    {{ $repos := dict }}
    {{ $url := printf "%s/%s/repos" .Site.Params.gh_url .Site.Params.gh_user }}

{{ with resources.Get $url }} 
    {{ with . | transform.Unmarshal }}
        {{ $repos := . }}
    {{ end }}
    {{ else }}  
        
        <p>Error fetching data from GitHub API.</p>
    {{ end }}

    
    <section class="oss">
    {{ range $repos }} 
    <article>
        <h3><a href="{{ .html_url }}">{{.name }}</a></h3>
        <p>{{ .description }}</p>
    </article>
    {{ end }}
   </section> 
    
{{ end }}

Still cannot get the JSON from the remote source

Any suggestions?