Deploying Hugo in NixOS
While my instinct is to use Phoenix for everything, I had to admit it’s overkill for a personal website. I’m not here to flex complex backend integrations or live features. I’ve heard good things about Hugo, so maybe it’s time to try it. I will describe how Nix and deploy-rs allowed me to get framed out and deployed in one short and painless sitting! A quick google search yielded a serviceable flake for a Hugo dev environment. So I just ran nix develop, hugo new site and then had a Claude agent throw in some placeholder content. 5 minutes later I had something serving on localhost. ...