Notes of Building Hexo Blog

Prerequisites

Hexo documentation

1 2	npm install hexo-cli -g hexo init notes

Hexo configuration

Modify url configuration in _config.yml:

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# URL
url: https://yourname.github.io/notes
root: /notes/

NexT for Hexo NexT documentation

1 2	version='v5.1.2' git clone --branch $version --depth 1 https://github.com/iissnan/hexo-theme-next themes/next

Set theme in hexo root configuration _config.yml:

1	theme: next

New repository https://github.com/yourname/notes

At https://github.com/yourname/notes/settings > GitHub Pages , choose gh-pages branch

Add script commands in .travis.yml:

1 2	script: - npm run build

where npm scripts:

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "hexo generate"
  }
}

Add environment variables GITHUB_TOKEN in Travis-CI settings

And add deployment configuration in .travis.yml:

deploy:
  provider: pages
  skip_cleanup: true
  github_token: $GITHUB_TOKEN
  target_branch: gh-pages
  local_dir: public
  on:
    branch: master

git add .
git commit
git push
open https://yourname.github.io/notes

Hexo commands

Start a local server:

1 2	hexo server open http://localhost:4000/