This should actually be another category, but I am not sure in which direction I should bring this hexo blog on, so I’ll just write this here, like an exception.

Although I am really enjoying my experience with Jekyll, I am also feeling a lot of it’s limitations, especially with implementing react into Jekyll, as I found out and wrote it down in my previous post, but it’s hard to actually do it, because of webpack integration problem.

So even though I think this blog is great, I would like to start another blog that can have react features more easily, and then I found Hexo.

Turns out that Hexo is actually more popular than Jekyll.. (I didn’t know that!) and also based on Node.js, which is the framework I am largely interested in right now.

So I decided to make another site, actually make my base www.jinmc.github.io site with Hexo. I am not sure what to make with that, but we’ll see about it.

By the way, Hexo site was actually simpler and easier than the Jekyll site, I think that was basically because I didn’t have to deal with ruby versions.

So this is how I set up Hexo : https://github.com/hexojs/hexo

and here are some hexo commands .. 

$ npm install hexo-cli -g    		// to install hexo

$ hexo init blog     
$ cd blog

$ hexo new "Hello Hexo"          //  creating new post

$ hexo generate        // to create static files

A very important thing to note is that when pushing to github pages, we should push what is in the public directory, because that is the static files created not the whole blog folder! Didn’t know that so the github pages was not rendering it and fixed it watching a youtube video and figured it out.