Why Netlify?

Why Netlify?

Activity

TIME: ⏱ 10 minutes

Go to this repo: https://github.com/apreshill/iyo-apero

Click on the “Deploy to Netlify” button 🚀

Clone GitHub repo

We just created:

• a full blogdown project…
• containing a Hugo site…
• deployed to Netlify…
• in a remote repository on YOUR GitHub (i.e., https://github.com/<you>/iyo-apero; you may have changed the repo name after clicking on the “Deploy to Netlify” button).

To make a local copy on our computer that we can actually work in, we’ll clone that repository into a new RStudio project. This will allow us to sync between the two locations: your remote (the one you see on github.com, and the one continuously deployed by Netlify) and your local desktop.

Use the RStudio IDE project wizard:

1. Open up RStudio to create a new project where your website’s files will live.

2. Click File > New Project > Version Control > Git.

3. Paste the URL from GitHub (either HTTPS or SSH)

4. Be intentional about where you tell RStudio to create this new Project on your workstation.

5. Click Create Project.

Alternatively, do this (but note that it requires a GitHub personal access token):

usethis::create_from_github("apreshill/iyo-apero", 
                            destdir = "/Users/alison/rscratch",
                            fork = FALSE)

Serve your site locally

Use the serve site add-in from the blogdown package to preview your site:

You should be all set to now commit / push / pull from your personal GitHub repository freely! Every commit to the main branch will trigger your Hugo site to be built and deployed again via Netlify :magic:

File scavenger hunt

You have 10 minutes to get to know this new Hugo site.

How? Meet the here bot! 🔍

Try to use the here bot messages to find the content file that produces the content in this starter site. There are:

• 3 blog posts
• 3 projects
• 3 talks

There are also 3 kinds of “layouts”:

• Single
• Single sidebar
• Single series

See if you can spot all of these! Think of it like an easter egg hunt 🥚