Static Website Development

Today is the first day of this personal website, which I chosen to develep with Hugo.

A while a go, had the opportunity to work with Jekyll, developing a yet to come, new version for my parents small scale tourist resort, Quinta da Rica-Fe.

After working with both Hugo and Jekyll, I decided that I will migrate also to Hugo my parents website. The main reasons for this are:

• Compile time, Hugo is really fast comparing with the alternative. Also, in jekyll file changes detetion is slow. In hugo, immediately after saving the files the changes are propagated to the browser.
• Although it is just a tool on top of golang, it will allow me to get used to golang templating and stack trace.
• At the time of this article, github only serves Github Pages with Jekyll. This means that some work arounds are necessary to use Hugo.
• To fully compare both platforms, I need a project like my parents website - where there are requirements like two languages, Portuguese and English.