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1. Eleanor Bennett    

   Digital Marketing Specialist at Logit.io | almost 2 years ago
   Useful previews

   As someone who is often creating new pages, Netlify's preview makes the review process easier. You can also use the generated URL from Netlify's preview to run an SEO audit prior to going live. This is very useful for spotting bugs or broken redirects.

Hugo mentions (354)

• Building static websites

  At one point though I realized there is a scaling problem with my build minutes. I knew that golang has considerably faster builds and in my case the easy fix is swapping over to Hugo. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• Creating excerpts in Astro

  This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the ability to create excerpts from your markdown content in 1 line or thereabouts. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• JS Toolbox 2024: Essential Picks for Modern Developers Series Overview

  We also take a look into static site generators, covering Astro, Nuxt, Hugo, Gatsby, and Jekyll. We take a detailed look into their usability, performance, and community support. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Starlight vs. Docusaurus for building documentation

  In that case, what we need would be closer to a static site generator (like Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll). But, static site generators aren't the best choice either because we would have to build a lot of documentation-focused functionality (like versioning, search, and code blocks) ourselves. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Top 5 Open-Source Documentation Development Platforms of 2024

  Hugo is a popular static site generator specifically designed to create websites and documentation lightning-fast. Its minimalist approach, emphasis on speed, and ease of use have made it popular among developers, technical writers, and anybody looking to construct high-quality websites without the complexity of typical CMS platforms. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

Netlify mentions (105)

• Join us for the Netlify Dynamic Site Challenge: $3,000 in Prizes!

  We are so excited to team up with Netlify to bring you our next DEV challenge. This Challenge is all about dynamic and high-performance digital experiences, across any framework! - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago

• Replatforming from Gatsby to Zola!

  Wait as the Netlify CI/CD robots work their magic to build and push my updated blog site with the shiny new post to the open internet. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• How to Use Google Drive to Host Your Website

  Forwarding: Forward or mask a domain to the Drive URL using services like netlify. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Building a (Virtual) Events Site

  The site is deployed to Netlify. There's really nothing special to share about that since Netlify makes the deployment super easy. A quirk of Hugo on Netlify means that I do need to specify the Hugo version as an environment variable but otherwise the deployment just works. One specific requirement of my site is to override the default Hugo build method to include the -F or --buildFuture flag because my events are... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• My brother asked me to build a website for his new small business

  Cons are that it might be a bit heavy hitting for a simple website. You may find there to be a cost to host it, whereas using a static site generator will allow you to use the free tier on netlify.com. SSG's are easier to use and less work to do, including less security to worry about. Source: 7 months ago