Getting started & installations

Pr-requisites (recommendations for Windows)

1. Register for a Github account.
2. Install git or Github Desktop - We will use this for as a version control system.
3. Install Chocolatey (a Windows package installer) -- we use this to easily manage installations of other programs we need.
4. (Optional) A dedicated text editor -- popular ones include Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and Sublime. In this tutorial I'll use VS Code

Step 1 Install go and Hugo

1. Open Windows Powershell as administrator (you can do this with right-click and select option 'Run as Administrator' We will install two programs via Choco.

   1. Go Programming Language
   2. Hugo

In the Powershell terminal, type

choco install go -y

Press enter. This will install Go programming language, which is what Hugo relies on. Once that is complete, we can install Hugo by typing in the terminal.

choco install hugo-extended -y

This will tell Choco to download and install the latest version of Hugo.

Test the installations with

hugo version

go version

If these commands return some version number, then you've successfully installed the software.

Step 2 Download Git repository via Github Desktop

Step 3 Download Google Cloud Storage utility tools

We use this to synchronise our local folder with Google Cloud storage You can view installation instructions here