AJonP Hugo Ionic Template

Posted: 5/18/2022

Just a little donation reminder as Hugo says “Hugo stands on the shoulder of many great open source libraries”, as does many of my tutorials. Brew Hugo

Hugo Getting Started

Checkout the guide at gohugo.io. My guides will always be on a Mac, but I will always try to provide a link for additional operating systems.

Lesson Steps

Install Hugo
Create new Hugo site
Start Using AJonP Template

Lesson 2 (required for Algolia)

Please chekcout Lesson: Hugo Ionic for the next set of features 1. Victor Hugo 1. Deploy

Install Hugo

Brew

If you are like me and just bought a new Mac, you probaly are taking brew for granted and think it is just there right ????! Well first you can head over to brew.sh they will tell you to run

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Hugo

brew install hugo

Create new Hugo site

hugo new site 4-hugo-ionic cd 4-hugo-ionic

At this point you will notice that the project remains pretty empty in a generic skeleton.

It only has two files config.toml and archetypes/default.md

If you run hugo serve right now, you will see a blank screen as there is no content to show.

Index.html

Adding this to the base of our site will be used for setting up the Home Page. This is the only required page you will ever need to build a Hugo based site. Please keep in mind that this is still an html page.

layouts/Index.html

You could make an entire site here if you wanted.

Again if you run hugo serve right now, you will see a blank screen as there is no content to show.

_index.md

content/_index.md

I know this is getting a little frustrating! Again if you run hugo serve right now, you will see a blank screen as there is no content to show.

Update Index.html

This will be the first page that will show anything in the browser!

layouts/index.html

Now run the command hugo serve and you will see a page that has

Making a Point

Now I wanted to walk you through all of that to show 1. The steps really necessary to make a Hugo site 1. Prove that laying out a site from scratch is time consuming

Start Using AJonP Template

Theme Download Location

You can find the link on Hugo’s Theme site https://themes.gohugo.io/ajonp-hugo-ionic/

Git integraiton

Clone (Easy, not updated)

git clone https://github.com/AJONPLLC/ajonp-hugo-ionic themes/ajonp-hugo-ionic

Submodule (Better, updated)

git submodule add https://github.com/AJONPLLC/ajonp-hugo-ionic themes/ajonp-hugo-ionic

Adding the submodule will allow you to receive all of the updates that you want, or lock into a specific commit to run your site from. Then later you are able to run

git submodule update --remote --merge

Theme Benefits

Now you should have a new folder in themes/ajonp-hugo-ionic. This has the full theme including an example site found in themes/ajonp-hugo-ionic/exampleSite

Features

Ionic Theming

Taking things a step further you can change any of the colors on the site by using Ionic’s Color Generator.

Here is a Hugo inspired look.

Just copy the CSS Variables it produces into static/css/custom.css

:root {
  --ion-color-primary: #ff387d;
  --ion-color-primary-rgb: 255, 56, 125;
  --ion-color-primary-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-primary-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-primary-shade: #e0316e;
  --ion-color-primary-tint: #ff4c8a;
  --ion-color-secondary: #0d171f;
  --ion-color-secondary-rgb: 13, 23, 31;
  --ion-color-secondary-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-secondary-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-secondary-shade: #0b141b;
  --ion-color-secondary-tint: #252e35;
  --ion-color-tertiary: #2cb286;
  --ion-color-tertiary-rgb: 44, 178, 134;
  --ion-color-tertiary-contrast: #000000;
  --ion-color-tertiary-contrast-rgb: 0, 0, 0;
  --ion-color-tertiary-shade: #279d76;
  --ion-color-tertiary-tint: #41ba92;
  --ion-color-success: #10dc60;
  --ion-color-success-rgb: 16, 220, 96;
  --ion-color-success-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-success-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-success-shade: #0ec254;
  --ion-color-success-tint: #28e070;
  --ion-color-warning: #ffce00;
  --ion-color-warning-rgb: 255, 206, 0;
  --ion-color-warning-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-warning-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-warning-shade: #e0b500;
  --ion-color-warning-tint: #ffd31a;
  --ion-color-danger: #f04141;
  --ion-color-danger-rgb: 245, 61, 61;
  --ion-color-danger-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-danger-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-danger-shade: #d33939;
  --ion-color-danger-tint: #f25454;
  --ion-color-dark: #222428;
  --ion-color-dark-rgb: 34, 34, 34;
  --ion-color-dark-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-dark-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-dark-shade: #1e2023;
  --ion-color-dark-tint: #383a3e;
  --ion-color-medium: #989aa2;
  --ion-color-medium-rgb: 152, 154, 162;
  --ion-color-medium-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-medium-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-medium-shade: #86888f;
  --ion-color-medium-tint: #a2a4ab;
  --ion-color-light: #f4f5f8;
  --ion-color-light-rgb: 244, 244, 244;
  --ion-color-light-contrast: #000000;
  --ion-color-light-contrast-rgb: 0, 0, 0;
  --ion-color-light-shade: #d7d8da;
  --ion-color-light-tint: #f5f6f9;
}

Theme updates

I used the theme for AJonP so it may change (you can always stay at a commit), but please contact me or Pull request on Github.