The purpose of this project is to test out continuous deployment on netlify with a Hugo site

• This is a simple Hugo Project. I create a site, a very tiny one. It contains only one page that display all my favourite links on the internet.
• That tiny home page render data from a Google sheet which contain all my favourites on the internet.
• This is how the site looks like. You can visit the site on this address
• This is the spreadsheet the site is generated from. Here is the link to the spreadsheet

Here is the user interaction to update the site with new data from the spreadsheet

• User edit the spreadsheet
• The user push a button on an Android device that I have made with ifttt. the button triggers a deploy on netlify
  • More about the button I explain later on.
• Hip hurray, favorite internet links is updated according to spreadsheet.

Here is the algorithm how it works.

• On build time the script ./index.js in home directory does this:
  • Fetch data from spredsheat above and convert it to a JSON file.
    • The spreadsheet has to be public available. Do not deal with credentials in this simple project.
  • Automatically place JSON in HUGO data folder ./data/bookmarks.json.
  • And finally at the end we build the project.
• That means every time we build the project, the site is updated according to the spreadsheet.

Build comand

• If dependencies is not installed then first run

npm install

• Build command

npm start

ifttt button

• To be able to make the button, I made a incoming webhook in netlify to trigger a deploy
• Here is the link to the documentation that describe how to make a button in ifttt to trigger a webhook.