GoHugo (A VSCode Extension)

Command Line helper in VSCode for Hugo Static Site generator.

VSCode Configs (settings.json):

• gohugo.config: string
  • Relative path to your Hugo Config TOML file
  • Default: config.toml
• gohugo.port: number
  • Hugo Development server PORT
  • Default: 3000
• gohugo.showTerminal: boolean
  • Show Terminal on Hugo Server Start. Enable it to show the terminal where Hugo Server is running. If false, terminal is hidden, and can be manually opened by the user, if needed.
  • Default: false

Features

Provides following VSCode Commands

• Get Version
  • To get hugo command version
• Create New Site
  • Creates a new hugo project, and changes workspace
• Add Theme or Select Theme
  • Add Theme, from custom URL
  • Select themes from Hugo's official list.
• Create New Content
  • Creates a new Post, or any Content.
  • Supports Archetypes completely, i.e.
    • Templates defined under archetypes will be considered, while creating new content
    • Folder Templates defined as archetypes will be used to spit out folder content, with --kind option.
• Start/Stop Debug Server
• Build
  • Generate Prod Build

Currently this project supports only .toml configurations.

Screenshots

To open VSCode Command Palette, click

• Windows/Linux: CTRL + SHIFT + P
• MacOS: CMD + SHIFT + P

How to Install

Create New Content

Create new content without Archetypes

Create new content with Archetypes

NOTE:

Create new content is a special command which supports Archetypes as well as plain default templates. User should keep a note of the following 3 things that can happen if using this command:

• Without Archetypes:
  • When there is no archetype templates, user is free to pass any string path, which can contain filenames or filenames within a subdirectory e.g:
    • default will create a default.md file in contentDir
    • posts/default.txt will a create a subdirectory posts inside contentDir, with a file default.txt in it.
• With Archetype:
  • User can still use Default template with option [Default]
  • User can chose a Archetype Template Directory and input a path where proper files will be created
  • User can chose a Archetype Template File and input a path with filename.
    • If a Subdirectory is present in the path, new generated file will be created inside that subdirectory.
    • If not Subdirectory is not present, file will be generated in contentDir/.

Issues

• Current version works only with .toml configurations.
  • Will fix this in later releases.