How I built this blog with Hugo and Hextra

The stack

This blog is built with:

• Hugo as a static site generator
• Hextra as the theme
• Cloudflare Pages for deployment

Why Hugo?

Speed. Hugo compiles hundreds of pages in milliseconds. It doesn’t need Node.js, it has no heavy dependencies. It’s a binary that just works.

Why Hextra?

It’s clean, modern and has native bilingual support. It also includes dark mode, Flexsearch integration, automatic table of contents, image zoom and a very organized configuration system. All out-of-the-box.

Deployment

Cloudflare Pages detects Hugo automatically. You just need to:

1. Connect your GitHub repository
2. Set the build command: hugo --minify
3. Wait 30 seconds

That simple.