How to quickly run hugo

So I’ve been putting off writing posts for a while, and I don’t really know why. I think it maybe that I just find it a hassle to get everything up and running to write a post, so I thought I would do something about that.

1. Open file explorer in Windows
2. Navigate to your hugo site directory
   This is the location, e.g. c:/hugo/sites/example.com, that we set up earlier to contain the details of the site that we are creating.
3. Create a new file in this directory and call it “run.bat”
4. Edit the run.bat and put in the following text:

	start c:/hugo/sites/example.com/content/posts

	start chrome http://localhost:1313

	hugo server -DF

5. Save the run.bat file
6. Now when you want to quickly make some changes, just double click the run.bat file.

For more information, check out:

• Running hugo

• hugo
• how-to