Integrate Firebase CLI & Hugo with VS Code for a seamless development environment in Windows

In my blog post about deploying a Hugo site to Firebase hosting, I mentioned the inconvenience of jumping out of Visual Studio Code to use the Firebase CLI for project creation, maintenance and deployment. I’ve finally resolved this issue so that my workflow can now be kept 100% inside VS Code. My current workflow Here’s my current workflow on a Windows machine. I author my blog (via markdown and javascript/html files) in VS Code, then use Hugo to stage to localhost and generate static files for the site....

June 22, 2022 · 5 min · 965 words · Tiffena Kou

Setup your own blog in under 1 hour with Hugo and Firebase, all for free!

Current Problem I have been using various free hosting providers such as x10hosting with self-hosted Wordpress blog in the last few years. I encountered various problems such as, poor site performance if you are using free hosting plans. creating a self-hosted WordPress site needs to be configured with many sets of credentials including the hosting provider, cPanel, the WordPress admin portal itself and the mysql database for WordPress. All these loops expose security vulnerabilities one way or the other....

May 15, 2022 · 8 min · 1532 words · Tiffena Kou