How the Blog Build Pipeline Works

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:30:00 +0000

After writing articles, you don’t want to deploy them manually every time. The goal of automation is simple: push code and forget about it.

Two things: turn Markdown into static files and put them on the internet. Plus, automate the whole build process.

Gulp Tasks

Two Gulp tasks running in series:

gulp.task("default", gulp.series('build', 'generate-service-worker'));

gulp.task('build', () => gulp.src('./').pipe(shell(['hugo --buildFuture --minify'])));

One line. Runs Hugo build, --buildFuture allows future-dated content, --minify handles HTML/CSS/JS compression at build time.