Powering my Portfolio with Hugo

Why this project?

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This portfolio was born from a desire to document my journey at ÉTS (École de technologie supérieure).

More than just a simple CV, it is a laboratory where I centralize my technical projects and my reflections as an engineering student.

Choosing the Tech: Hugo 🚀

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Since I am developing this site in my spare time, I was looking for a tool that was educational yet easy to use.
That is how I discovered Hugo, a static site generator (SSG) written in Go.

Advantages

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• Simplicity: Hugo’s workflow is very intuitive. I was able to install a community-created theme in less than 5 minutes.
• Rapid Execution: Although several configurations were necessary to get a functional site, it was up and running within 3 days!
• “Docs-as-Code” Architecture: I write my articles in Markdown, which saves me a significant amount of time on HTML page creation.
• Security and Performance: No database, no vulnerable PHP scripts. Just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

CI/CD

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Thanks to Cloudflare Pages, I set up a worker that automatically triggers a build and updates the site in real-time whenever a commit is pushed to the main branch of the repository.

While this is possible with GitHub Pages, since my domain is hosted on Cloudflare, the integration is much more seamless.

Build script:

main() {
    HUGO_VERSION="0.155.3"

    echo "🚀 Starting Hugo build process..."

    # Verify installations
    echo "✅ Verifying installations..."
    echo "Hugo: $(hugo version)"

    # Build the site
    echo "🔨 Building Hugo site..."
    hugo --gc --minify

    echo "✨ Build completed successfully!"
}

main "$@"