cjp314/actions-hugo

GitHub Actions for Hugo ⚡️ Setup Hugo quickly and build your site fast. Hugo extended, Hugo Modules, Linux (Ubuntu), macOS, and Windows are supported.

GitHub Actions for Hugo

This Hugo Setup Action can install Hugo to a virtual machine of GitHub Actions. Hugo extended version, Hugo Modules, Linux (Ubuntu), macOS, and Windows are supported.

From v2, this Hugo Setup Action has migrated to a JavaScript (TypeScript) action. We no longer build or pull a Hugo docker image. Thanks to this change, we can complete this action in less than a few seconds. (A docker base action was taking about 1 min or more execution time to build and pull a docker image.)

OS (runs-on)	ubuntu-18.04, ubuntu-20.04	macos-latest	windows-2019
Support	✅️	✅️	✅️

Hugo type	Hugo Extended	Hugo Modules	Latest Hugo
Support	✅️	✅️	✅️

Table of Contents

• Getting started
  • ⭐️ Create your workflow
• Options
  • ⭐️ Use Hugo extended
  • ⭐️ Use the latest version of Hugo
• Tips
  • ⭐️ Caching Hugo Modules
  • ⭐️ Read Hugo version from file
  • ⭐️ Workflow for autoprefixer and postcss-cli
  • ⭐️ Workflow for asciidoctor
  • ⭐️ Non-ascii Filename
• CHANGELOG
• License
• About Maintainer
• Maintainer Notes

Getting started

⭐️ Create your workflow

An example workflow .github/workflows/gh-pages.yml with GitHub Actions for GitHub Pages. For the first deployment, we have to do this operation: First Deployment with GITHUB_TOKEN - peaceiris/actions-gh-pages

name: GitHub Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main  # Set a branch to deploy
  pull_request:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          submodules: true  # Fetch Hugo themes (true OR recursive)
          fetch-depth: 0    # Fetch all history for .GitInfo and .Lastmod

      - name: Setup Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
        with:
          hugo-version: '0.91.2'
          # extended: true

      - name: Build
        run: hugo --minify

      - name: Deploy
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          publish_dir: ./public

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Options

⭐️ Use Hugo extended

Set extended: true to use a Hugo extended version.

- name: Setup Hugo
  uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
  with:
    hugo-version: '0.91.2'
    extended: true

⭐️ Use the latest version of Hugo

Set hugo-version: 'latest' to use the latest version of Hugo.

- name: Setup Hugo
  uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
  with:
    hugo-version: 'latest'

This action fetches the latest version of Hugo by hugo | Homebrew Formulae

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Tips

⭐️ Caching Hugo Modules

Insert a cache step before site-building as follows. Note that the cache dir location of Hugo on a Linux-based operating system is /tmp/hugo_cache. On macOS, ${TMPDIR}/hugo_cache has the location.

- uses: actions/cache@v2
  with:
    path: /tmp/hugo_cache
    key: ${{ runner.os }}-hugomod-${{ hashFiles('**/go.sum') }}
    restore-keys: |
      ${{ runner.os }}-hugomod-

- name: Build
  run: hugo --minify

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⭐️ Read Hugo version from file

How to sync a Hugo version between a Docker Compose and a GitHub Actions workflow via .env file.

Write a HUGO_VERSION to the .env file like the following and push it to a remote branch.

HUGO_VERSION=0.91.2

Next, add a step to read a Hugo version from the .env file.

    - name: Read .env
      id: hugo-version
      run: |
        . ./.env
        echo "::set-output name=HUGO_VERSION::${HUGO_VERSION}"

    - name: Setup Hugo
      uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
      with:
        hugo-version: '${{ steps.hugo-version.outputs.HUGO_VERSION }}'
        extended: true

Here is a docker-compose.yml example.

version: '3'

services:
  hugo:
    container_name: hugo
    image: "peaceiris/hugo:v${HUGO_VERSION}"
    # image: peaceiris/hugo:v${HUGO_VERSION}-mod   # Hugo Modules
    # image: peaceiris/hugo:v${HUGO_VERSION}-full  # Hugo Modules and Node.js
    ports:
      - 1313:1313
    volumes:
      - ${PWD}:/src
    command:
      - server
      - --bind=0.0.0.0
      - --buildDrafts

The alpine base Hugo Docker image is provided on the following repository.

peaceiris/hugo-extended-docker: Hugo alpine base Docker image (Hugo extended and Hugo Modules)

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⭐️ Workflow for autoprefixer and postcss-cli

Here is an example workflow for the google/docsy Hugo theme. This theme needs autoprefixer and postcss-cli to build a project. The following workflow is tested with google/docsy-example.

A workflow for the Hugo Babel pipeline is also the same as follows.

name: GitHub Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master  # Set a branch to deploy
  pull_request:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          submodules: recursive  # Fetch the Docsy theme
          fetch-depth: 0         # Fetch all history for .GitInfo and .Lastmod

      - name: Setup Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
        with:
          hugo-version: '0.91.2'
          extended: true

      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: '14'

      - name: Cache dependencies
        uses: actions/cache@v2
        with:
          path: ~/.npm
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}
          restore-keys: |
            ${{ runner.os }}-node-

      - run: npm ci
      - run: hugo --minify

      - name: Deploy
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

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⭐️ Workflow for asciidoctor

Here is an example workflow for a Hugo project using asciidoctor.

name: GitHub Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main  # Set a branch to deploy
  pull_request:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          submodules: true  # Fetch Hugo themes (true OR recursive)
          fetch-depth: 0    # Fetch all history for .GitInfo and .Lastmod

      - name: Setup Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
        with:
          hugo-version: '0.91.2'
          extended: true

      - name: Setup Ruby
        uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
        with:
          ruby-version: 2.7

      - run: gem install asciidoctor

      - name: Run Hugo
        run: |
          alias asciidoctor="asciidoctor --attribute=experimental=true --attribute=icons=font"
          hugo --minify

      - name: Deploy
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

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⭐️ Non-ascii Filename

cf. Gitinfo fails on unicode filename · Issue #3071 · gohugoio/hugo

name: GitHub Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Disable quotePath
        run: git config core.quotePath false

      - name: Setup Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
        with:
          hugo-version: '0.91.2'

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CHANGELOG

• CHANGELOG.md

License

• MIT License - peaceiris/actions-hugo

About Maintainer

• peaceiris homepage
• GitHub Action Hero: Shohei Ueda - The GitHub Blog

Maintainer Notes

Run npm test on a Docker container.

# On container
make build
make all

# Release script on host
./release.sh

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