How to build blog with hexo on github

Contents

1. 1. What is Hexo?
2. 2. Requirements
3. 3. Install Git
4. 4. Install Node.js
5. 5. Install Hexo
6. 6. Install Theme
7. 7. Config _config.yml
8. 8. Basic Usage
   1. 8.1. Creating a new post
   2. 8.2. Run server
   3. 8.3. Generate static files
   4. 8.4. Deploy to remote sites

What is Hexo?

Check documentation for knowledge.

Requirements

Hexo is runing based dependency.We should have a couple of other things installed first:

• Git
• Node.js

Install Git

• Windows: Download & install git.
• Linux (Ubuntu, Debian): sudo apt-get install git-core
• Linux (Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS): sudo yum install git-core

Install Node.js

• Window: Download & intall Node.js
• Linux: nvm install stable

Notes:
System environment should be setted.
npm config set prefix “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_global”.
npm config set cache “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_cache”.
Append user environment variable Path with “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_cache”.
New a system environment variable named NODE_PATH and set value “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_global\node_modules”.
Fource environment effective.

Install Hexo

Once all the requirements are installed, you can install Hexo with npm.

Installing Hexo is quite easy. However, you do need to have a couple of other things installed first:

$ npm install -g hexo-cli

Onece Hexo is installed,run the following commands to initialise Hexo in the target .

$ hexo init <folder>

Install Theme

$ git clone https://github.com/wuchong/jacman.git themes/jacman

Config _config.yml

Basic Usage

Creating a new post

$ hexo new "My New Post"

More info: Writing

Run server

$ hexo server

More info: Server

Generate static files

$ hexo generate

More info: Generating

Deploy to remote sites

$ hexo deploy

More info: Deployment