https://www.cassidynelemans.com

https://www.cassidynelemans.com is a static site generated by Hugo that is hosted in an S3 bucket and served by a Cloudfront distribution.

Local environment setup

• Install hugo via brew

brew install hugo

• Clone the repo onto your local machine

git clone git@github.com:nelemansc/cassidynelemans.com.git

• cd to the folder and make modifications. The theme used lives in the themes/ directory.

• run hugo server -D to generate the site via hugo emulation. The site can be accessed at http://localhost:1313. If all looks good, commit your changes and push.

The Github Action associated with the repo does the following:

• checks out the repo
• Runs hugo -D to generate the static assets
• Uploads the static assets to S3
• Invalidates the Cloudfront cache so the newest version is served up by the CDN

The following secrets need to be configured in the repository settings:

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• AWS_REGION
• AWS_S3_BUCKET
• DISTRIBUTION_ID (the Cloudfront distribution ID)