Hugo Wrapper

hugow is a POSIX-style shell script which acts as a wrapper to download and run Hugo binary - which is, in fact, platform dependent - for your platform. It can be executed in variety of Operating Systems and Command Shells.

Table of contents

• Hugo Wrapper dependencies
• Download Hugo Wrapper
• Upgrade Hugo Wrapper
• Hugo Wrapper usage
• Hugo Wrapper flags
• Download Hugo binary
  • Download specific Hugo binary
  • Download specific Hugo Extended binary
• Content of .gitignore
• Tested on
• License

Hugo Wrapper dependencies

hugow has very minimal number of dependencies:

• downloader: wget or curl
• checksum: sha256sum or shasum or cksum
• tarball: tar

Download Hugo Wrapper

In order to use the hugow binary, you only need to download it and place it in the root of your Hugo project.

curl -L -o hugow https://github.com/khos2ow/hugo-wrapper/releases/download/v1.6.0/hugow && chmod +x hugow

or

wget -O hugow https://github.com/khos2ow/hugo-wrapper/releases/download/v1.6.0/hugow && chmod +x hugow

Upgrade Hugo Wrapper

In order to upgrade hugow binary, you can use --upgrade flag. The newest version of wrapper binary will be downloaded from GitHub repository on your machine and will replace the old one.

./hugow --upgrade

Hugo Wrapper usage

and use it the same way you'd use Hugo binary itself:

./hugow          # to build the site
./hugow server   # to start the server
./hugow --help   # to show help of both Hugo and Hugo Wrapper

On the first execution, hugow downloads the latest Hugo binary from official releases and caches it locally as <PROJECT_ROOT>/.hugo/hugo and also keeps track of the downloaded version in <PROJECT_ROOT>/.hugo/version. As a result from the second execution forward it will only execute the - already downloaded - binary.

Hugo Wrapper flags

hugow supports the following flags and passes through any additional flag directly to Hugo binary itself.

Flags:
      --get-extended               get hugo extended binary
      --get-latest                 get latest version of hugo binary
      --get-version string         get specified version of hugo binary
      --upgrade                    upgrade hugo wrapper binary itself
  -h, --help                       help for hugo-wrapper

Hugo Wrapper CI/CD

Most Continuous delivery platforms need a silent build command that will produce valid exit codes. Here are some examples of using hugow in the wild.

Netlify

Netlify will need permission to use hugow and run the build

chmod a+x ./hugow && ./hugow --gc --minify --quiet

Download Hugo binary

With hugow you can download LATEST or specific version of Hugo binary or Hugo Extended binary, and you can upgrade or downgrade at any given time.

Download specific Hugo binary

./hugow --get-latest                    # to get latest Hugo version
./hugow --get-version <VERSION_NUMBER>  # to get specific Hugo version

Download specific Hugo Extended binary

./hugow --get-extended --get-latest                    # to get latest Hugo extended version
./hugow --get-extended --get-version <VERSION_NUMBER>  # to get specific Hugo extended version
./hugow --get-version <VERSION_NUMBER>/extended        # to get specific Hugo extended version (alias)

Content of .gitignore

.hugo folder in PROJECT_ROOT which contains downloaded Hugo binary and the version should be added to .gitignore. Note that this is usually good enough, and it makes your user to easily access Hugo binary without needing to actually go and download specific version based on their OS and CPU architecture.

example .gitignore content:

.hugo

But if you need a fine grained control of which version of Hugo is intended to be used for your project, or if you need an absolute fixed version of Hugo to be used everywhere (on user machine, CI job container, etc) you need to check in the .hugo/version into your project repository as well to ensure consistence Hugo version everywhere.

example .gitignore content:

.hugo/*
!.hugo/version

Tested on

License

Licensed under Apache License version 2.0. Please see the LICENSE file included in the root directory of the source tree for extended license details.