Hexo is a modern static website generator & bloging platform written in Node.js. It is a great way to create a blog or other content driven websites as all the content is written in markdown and can therefore be versioned with Git.

I am using Hexo for my developer blog (using blogger became very slow) and am also using Hexo for a series of online tutorials on developer tools.

Here is a quick guide to get going with Hexo.

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I’m using Hexo as my blogging platform and wanted to customise the theme, which is broken down into many different parts to make it easier to manage and customise. In order to understand what the different parts did I fired up Google Chrome deverloper tools to quickly explore the styles of Hexo’s default theme.

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There are several static website & blogging platforms available, so why did I choose Hexo over things like Jekyll, Octopress, DocPad or writing my own? Let me elaborate.

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Welcome to Hexo! This is your very first post. Check documentation for more info. If you get any problems when using Hexo, you can find the answer in trobuleshooting or you can ask me on GitHub.

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Hexo is a great way to create a blog or static website and comes with some responsive and great looking themes. However, so your site doesnt look like everyone elses, you may want to customise the look and the easiest way is to modify an existing theme.

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This is a simple post to see if there are any differences in the style of code when defined in a { % codeblock % } or using markdown notation (tripple backticks / indentation). In this case I am just using some simple Clojure code.

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So you have installed Hexo (and nodejs), so now you are ready to start blogging. Use the following command to create a new blog post entry (blog posts are the default type of content, although this can be changed in _config.yml):

hexo new "Meaningful blog post title with a hint of SEO"

Hexo will create a new file under source/_posts using the name provided. You can then edit this file and start creating your content using Markdown.

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