I recently undertook the effort of moving my website from jekyll using jekyll-bootstrap to Hugo and I wanted to record some notes from my efforts. In particular I want to collect a set of useful links that helped me in making the switch.
For what it’s worth, I greatly prefer Hugo now that I’ve gotten used to it, though there wasn’t too much broken about Jekyll.
The most useful thing for developing my site was when I found the academic theme. It turns out that in Hugo, themes contain a lot of the functionality of a site, and they make it easy to add on functionality either by modifying the theme, or your site in particular. The academic theme is widely used so there a good reference page to help you get started.
The creator of the academic theme also has a good tutorial on his blog for how to set up a new hugo site from scratch.
I ended up testing a lot of my design on a separate repository so I could test out pushing to github sites. It turns out that github user pages need to push to the master branch in order to publish to the web, so my original script to push to a gh-pages branch had to be modified. It seems to be working as of July 26, 2017, but there are probably a ton of bugs remaining. If you happen to find any bugs, please leave a comment or sent me a message on twitter to let me know and I’ll fix it.