Hexo - Install

Preface

Goal: Show Minimal Homepage in Hexo

Here, I present a Hexo Tutorial, step by step, for beginners.

1: Install Hexo

Hexo run under NodeJS. It means you can have it in most OS, such as Windows and Linux.

$ npm install hexo-cli -g

Now you can:

$ hexo version

2: Create Project

Consider create new Hexo site, or extract the file above, in your favorites directory

$ cd /media/Works/sites

$ hexo init tutor-hexo-bulma

$ cd tutor-hexo-bulma

$ npm install

This will setup a few NPM.

And the result is these directories:

$ tree -d -I node_modules -L 3
.
├── scaffolds
├── source
│   └── _posts
└── themes
    └── landscape
        ├── languages
        ├── layout
        ├── scripts
        └── source

9 directories

Notice the default landscape theme.

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3: Running for the First Time

Run Server

$ hexo server

INFO  Start processing
INFO  Hexo is running at http://localhost:4000 . Press Ctrl+C to stop.

Landscape Theme

This will show you a ready to use blog, with landscape theme as default theme.

I suggest you play with content in Hexo directory, before we continue to the next article.

Verbose

If you want you can use more verbose output with debug option.

$ hexo server --debug

Multiple Hexo

It is common to work with multiple Hexo at one time, for one reason or another. You can achieve it with using other port.

$ hexo server -p 5000

Now you are ready to explore inside Hexo.

What is Next ?

Consider continue reading [ Hexo Minimal ]. We are going to make theme from scratch, with pure HTML without any CSS.

Thank you for reading.