Hugo Amplify Test

This repo contains a simple Hugo site which can be deployed to AWS Amplify - check out this post for more info on the background.

Install

Clone:

git clone https://github.com/seanrmurphy/hugo-amplify-test.git

If you want to work with this and AWS Amplify yourself, you should fork this repo as you will need to commit changes which will get picked up by Amplify.

Run locally

Prerequisites:

• go toolchain (1.14+ is fine)
• hugo (1.17+ works)

Running the site locally

./run-localhost.sh

Deploy to AWS Amplify - main branch

** FIXME **

• You need your own repository - fork this
• Set up application
• Connect to branch main
• Check the build process - the build should fail
• Set up build instructions
• Rebuild the application with the new build instructions
• The application should now build but it should not be possible to see the website
• Add the environment variables - set HUGO_ENVIRONMENT to production for the main branch
• Modify the baseURL in the config/production/config.toml to use the endpoint Amplify has created for this branch
• Commit and push the changes to main branch
• The build should start automatically, it should be successful and now when you go to the endpoint, you should see the content

Set up staging branch on AWS Amplify

• Add a new branch in Amplify
• Configure the new branch such that HUGO_ENVIRONMENT is staging
• Make a change to the local repository - for example, change the colour of the heading...