How to build a blog by Hexo

Overview

Recently I want to build a static website since it could host on GitHub Pages. I found Hexo which is written by Node.js. Hexo could let you build your website very fast and it also supports Markdown for writting your webpage.

Installation

• Node.js
• Git
• Hexo

Theme

If you want to build your blog easily and quickly, you will need to leverage Hexo theme. Theme is a collection of css, js which could render your webpage.

There are many themes could be selected on Hexo/Theme. Following only two steps could build your website with theme:

1. Create a new folder with entire files of theme under ./themes .
2. Open ./_config.yml and update variable of theme: <theme>.

Build

1. Initialize a website
   npx hexo init
2. Create a new article
   npx hexo new <title>
3. Generate static files
   npx hexo generate
4. Start a server
   npx hexo server

Deploy

GitHub Pages

1. Install hexo-deployer-git
2. Update ./_config.yml

   deploy:
       type: git
       repo: https://github.com/<username>/<project>
       branch: <branch>

3. Execute npx hexo clean && npx hexo deploy -g
4. Launch <username>.github.io