Manual Hugo Build

When you’re satisfied with Hugo view of your content in Hugo virtual server, issue a Hugo ‘build’ in the container CLI

    hugo --minify --cleanDestinationDir

This command “builds” your Hugo site into the container’s /public folder. We used a docker disk mount to map this folder back to your local /docs folder, so the Hugo website will automatically be copied back into your local repo
flag ‘–cleanDestinationDir’ tells hugo to re-write the entire output directory with its build, so it will clear out template files/anything else that may be in there
You can now exit the container with ctrl + cd, or command: ’exit’
When you exit the container, any files stored or changes you made to the container will be lost and cannot be recovered
- Remember we edited the /content folder on our local OS, so those changes were not made to the container and will not be lost
- Further, the disk mount from local’s /docs to Container’s public AUTOMATICALLY writes the hugo build to your local OS, so those changes will not be lost
- If you need to continue editing, just run a new container from your built image, and run hugo’s webserver. Everything is linked properly so it should just work