Principles and Practices

2. Principles and Practices#

  • Read, sign (add your name to) the student agreement and commit it to your repo.

  • Work through a git tutorial.

  • Build a personal website in the class archive describing yourself and your final project. Refer to the lecture material for examples.

  • Upload parts 1 and 2, to the class archive.

The first week of Fab Academy started with a very steep learning curve for me, as I haven’t built a website in decades and have only indirectly followed the current trends in web development. In this part of the documentary, I want to describe my learning curve and discuss a few things that worked well and not so well. In the end, I’m happy with the result, but it took several attempts to get there.

First, I cloned the repository provided for me by the Fab Academy organizers on my local machine. This required the following command on my Manjaro Linux system.

git clone

I got an error message because I have not yet successfully configured git or authenticated my account. To fix this error, it was necessary to execute the following commands:

git config –global user.name
git config –global user.email

The next step was to generate and store the SSH key in my home directory on my local machine to establish a smooth communication between my GitLab account and my machine.

ssh-key

To familiarize myself with .html, git and my website I adjusted some things locally in index.html and added the first commit and added the changes to my repository.

git push
I have executed the following commands:

git status
git add .
git commit -m „your changes“
git push

After I successfully uploaded the first updated version of my website to the server, I got busy with static site generators. The first choice was to test Hugo. I had to download the necessary dependencies to my system in order to use the Hugo software in my test environment.

Following commands were necessary to start a Hugo test server locally:

hugo new site website
git clone https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book.git
cd .
kate hugo.toml
hugo server

hugo install

After I succesfully installed Hugo in my local environment I tried to use different templates. The first template I used was the Hugo Theme Stack.

hugo test