Build your own blog with hexo

What is Hexo?

Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. You write posts in Markdown (or other languages) and Hexo generates static files with a beautiful theme in seconds.
Installing Hexo is quite easy. However, you do need to have Nodejs & Git installed first.
In order to install Nodejs you can see Install & run your first application Nodejs.
In order to install Git you can see https://git-scm.com/ .

Install Hexo

Once all the requirements are installed,you can install Hexo.

$ npm install -g hexo-cli

Create a blog

Now that hexo is installed run the following commands to initialise Hexo project

$ hexo init myblog
$ cd myblog
$ npm install

You can modify site settings in _config.yml. for the sake of simplicity we�re only modify the Title and author name .

Run the Blog

Run the server:

$ hexo server

launch your browser and navigate to http://localhost:4000.

Voila your first blog is working!

Create a new post

Create a new post is very simlpe all what you have to do is :

$ hexo new “My Fist Post with hexo”

Update the file using Markdown language:

---
title: My Fist Post with hexo
date: 2016-09-25 20:03:25
tags:
---
This my first post using [Hexo](https://hexo.io/)! 

## First title

### a first subtitile 

    /usr/bin/bash
    $ hexo new "My New Post"
    

## Second title

More info: [Writing](https://hexo.io/docs/writing.html)

Run the server again:

$ hexo server

Deployment on Github

Now what about Deployment, it�s exactly what we are going to do, first Create new Github repository :

Click settings


Then install hexo-deployer-git:

$ npm install hexo-deployer-git –save

Click clone or download button:

Update _config.yaml file :

It�s time for deployement :

$ hexo deploy

To preview launch your browser.

You can get see the blog on https://malektrainer.github.io/.

You can find source code on https://github.com/malektrainer/myblog.