How I Built and Deploy This Website
This site runs on Hugo, deploys to GitHub Pages for staging, and ships to a DigitalOcean droplet for production. The entire pipeline is a single GitHub Actions workflow. Push to main, preview on staging, approve, and it goes live. Here is exactly how it works, step by step. If you want to build something similar, this post is your blueprint. Why Hugo Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It takes Markdown files, applies a theme, and outputs plain HTML. No database, no server-side rendering, no JavaScript framework. Just files. ...