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title: AJonP Hugo Ionic Template
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> Just a little donation reminder as Hugo says "Hugo stands on the shoulder of many great open source libraries", as does many of my tutorials. [Brew](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#donations) [Hugo](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo#dependencies)

# Hugo Getting Started

Checkout the guide at [gohugo.io](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/). My guides will always be on a Mac, but I will always try to provide a link for additional operating systems.

## Lesson Steps

1. Install Hugo
2. Create new Hugo site
3. Start Using AJonP Template

### Lesson 2 (required for Algolia)

Please chekcout Lesson: [Hugo Ionic](https://ajonp.com/lessons/hugo-ionic-template) for the next set of features 1. Victor Hugo 1. Deploy

## Install Hugo

### Brew

If you are like me and just bought a new Mac, you probaly are taking brew for granted and think it is just there right ????! Well first you can head over to [brew.sh](https://brew.sh/) they will tell you to run

```bash
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
```

### Hugo

```bash
brew install hugo
```

# Create new Hugo site

```bash
hugo new site 4-hugo-ionic cd 4-hugo-ionic
```

At this point you will notice that the project remains pretty empty in a generic skeleton.

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636635/main-codingcatdev-photo/228fbeba-996e-4810-8fbc-94065502518e.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636635/main-codingcatdev-photo/228fbeba-996e-4810-8fbc-94065502518e.png)

It only has two files config.toml and archetypes/default.md

> If you run `hugo serve` right now, you will see a blank screen as there is no content to show.

## Index.html

Adding this to the base of our site will be used for setting up the [Home Page](https://gohugo.io/templates/homepage/). This is the only required page you will ever need to build a Hugo based site. Please keep in mind that this is still an html page.

`layouts/Index.html`

```
You could make an entire site here if you wanted.
```

> Again if you run `hugo serve` right now, you will see a blank screen as there is no content to show.

## \_index.md

`content/_index.md`

> I know this is getting a little frustrating! Again if you run `hugo serve` right now, you will see a blank screen as there is no content to show.

## Update Index.html

This will be the **first** page that will show anything in the browser!

layouts/index.html

Now run the command `hugo serve` and you will see a page that has

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636636/main-codingcatdev-photo/8e510c84-be79-455b-a89e-d9aad1f608a1.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636636/main-codingcatdev-photo/8e510c84-be79-455b-a89e-d9aad1f608a1.png)

## Making a Point

Now I wanted to walk you through all of that to show 1. The steps really necessary to make a Hugo site 1. Prove that laying out a site from scratch is time consuming

# Start Using AJonP Template

## Theme Download Location

You can find the link on Hugo's Theme site [https://themes.gohugo.io/ajonp-hugo-ionic/](https://themes.gohugo.io/ajonp-hugo-ionic/)

## Git integraiton

### Clone (Easy, not updated)

```bash
git clone https://github.com/AJONPLLC/ajonp-hugo-ionic themes/ajonp-hugo-ionic
```

### Submodule (Better, updated)

```bash
git submodule add https://github.com/AJONPLLC/ajonp-hugo-ionic themes/ajonp-hugo-ionic
```

Adding the submodule will allow you to receive all of the updates that you want, or lock into a specific commit to run your site from. Then later you are able to run

```bash
git submodule update --remote --merge
```

## Theme Benefits

Now you should have a new folder in themes/ajonp-hugo-ionic. This has the full theme including an example site found in themes/ajonp-hugo-ionic/exampleSite

Features

# Ionic Theming

Taking things a step further you can change any of the colors on the site by using Ionic's [Color Generator](https://beta.ionicframework.com/docs/theming/color-generator).

Here is a Hugo inspired look.

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636636/main-codingcatdev-photo/8b18767a-b957-4d32-b5a0-ecc496ebbb6b.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636636/main-codingcatdev-photo/8b18767a-b957-4d32-b5a0-ecc496ebbb6b.png)

Just copy the CSS Variables it produces into static/css/custom.css

```
:root {
  --ion-color-primary: #ff387d;
  --ion-color-primary-rgb: 255, 56, 125;
  --ion-color-primary-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-primary-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-primary-shade: #e0316e;
  --ion-color-primary-tint: #ff4c8a;
  --ion-color-secondary: #0d171f;
  --ion-color-secondary-rgb: 13, 23, 31;
  --ion-color-secondary-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-secondary-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-secondary-shade: #0b141b;
  --ion-color-secondary-tint: #252e35;
  --ion-color-tertiary: #2cb286;
  --ion-color-tertiary-rgb: 44, 178, 134;
  --ion-color-tertiary-contrast: #000000;
  --ion-color-tertiary-contrast-rgb: 0, 0, 0;
  --ion-color-tertiary-shade: #279d76;
  --ion-color-tertiary-tint: #41ba92;
  --ion-color-success: #10dc60;
  --ion-color-success-rgb: 16, 220, 96;
  --ion-color-success-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-success-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-success-shade: #0ec254;
  --ion-color-success-tint: #28e070;
  --ion-color-warning: #ffce00;
  --ion-color-warning-rgb: 255, 206, 0;
  --ion-color-warning-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-warning-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-warning-shade: #e0b500;
  --ion-color-warning-tint: #ffd31a;
  --ion-color-danger: #f04141;
  --ion-color-danger-rgb: 245, 61, 61;
  --ion-color-danger-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-danger-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-danger-shade: #d33939;
  --ion-color-danger-tint: #f25454;
  --ion-color-dark: #222428;
  --ion-color-dark-rgb: 34, 34, 34;
  --ion-color-dark-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-dark-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-dark-shade: #1e2023;
  --ion-color-dark-tint: #383a3e;
  --ion-color-medium: #989aa2;
  --ion-color-medium-rgb: 152, 154, 162;
  --ion-color-medium-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-medium-contrast-rgb: 255, 255, 255;
  --ion-color-medium-shade: #86888f;
  --ion-color-medium-tint: #a2a4ab;
  --ion-color-light: #f4f5f8;
  --ion-color-light-rgb: 244, 244, 244;
  --ion-color-light-contrast: #000000;
  --ion-color-light-contrast-rgb: 0, 0, 0;
  --ion-color-light-shade: #d7d8da;
  --ion-color-light-tint: #f5f6f9;
}
```

# Theme updates

I used the theme for [AJonP](https://ajonp.com/) so it may change (you can always stay at a commit), but please contact me or Pull request on [Github](https://github.com/AJONPLLC/ajonp-hugo-ionic/pulls).
