Lightweight, fast, and easy to use. Provides all basic needs to build a modern, powerful, small to medium web application. Ready for new projects, but flexible enough to use in existing scenarios. Scalable as your project grows.
I like to use Hugo static site generator to prepare a web design and JavaScript UX for my projects. So I wrote Hugonette to mix it with the power of Nette PHP framework: an intuitive templating engine and awesome debugging tool.
Hugonette runs on PHP version 7.1 or higher.
Hugo static site generator is one of the favorite tools for preparing page design and functionality. Its advantage is a really fast response to change during development. After debugging, Hugo generates a static site, where all files are ready exactly as you see them while browsing.
Nette PHP framework is a flexible, feature-rich, modular PHP framework. Hugonette is a little friend of Nette, sharing its project structure and using several Nette awesome components. Thanks to Nette guys, our work on Hugonette projects will be nice & fast.
You must have Composer installed on your local machine. Then choose a name for your project folder (let it be myblog). Common practice is to place it outside DocumentRoot for security. From a command tool run:
composer create-project nette/web-project myblog
Then go into the project folder. Install Hugonette:
cd myblog
composer require andygrond/hugonette
Take a look at your project folder. If you are working on Linux or macOS, make log and temp folders writable. Now find some example files in the vendor/Andygrond/hugonette/doc/install folder of the Hugonette project. Replace the entire app folder with install/app folder of Hugonette and the entire www with install/www. The second one will be your DocumentRoot. Here you will find 2 subfolders:
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myblogwill be your entry point. Modifying 2 files there:.htaccessandgate.phpyou can change the project name, path and do whatever pops into your head to adapt Hugonette to your existing project. It's very flexible, so if you have a question like "will it be possible" the answer is probably: YES! -
static-- you will put your static files here.
My suggestion is to use Hugo to prepare static pages for your project. But, you can take advantage of another tool if you wish, or even use an existing template, making necessary changes in a text editor. Your choice.
Head to Hugonette GitBook. You will find there the Hugonette documentation as well as some useful advices on how to use Hugo to get a professionally made website.
Hugonette is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.