Adapting material-dashboard to Quarto and Hugo
While quarto's built-in website support is quite flexible and feature-rich, we are still constrained in the overall look and feel of a website.
Using quarto's hugo format, however, allows us to achieve more complete control over layout and appearance.
It is important to note that this comes at some cost of foregoing pre-packaged features and layouts in quarto websites.
Instead, we rely on the (much richer and widely developed) tooling directly from hugo.
This approach is comparable to blogdown
, with quarto essentially relegated to the role of executing .qmd
code into .md
consumed by hugo.
Of course being quarto
, this approach could work equally well with exclusively Python-based code examples without even installing R, or use a mix of the languages and engines.
This repository contains a stand-alone hugo theme in themes/material-kit5
, built
around assets provided by Material Dashboard 2 from Creative Tim
under the open-source MIT License.
quarto render
hugo -c _site/content -b {baseurl}
- Ensure you have a gh-pages branch (e.g. check 'copy all branches' if using template repo.)
- GitHub Actions should be already configured. This will use
quarto-dev/quarto-actions/publish@v2
(see quarto-dev/quarto-actions) to render the quarto files togh-pages
branch. - From there, activate a Netlify deploy to hugo against the gh-pages branch to deploy the site.