Continuous integration hexo blog

Using hexo-theme-melody and Travis CI to build a beautiful hexo blog in a fast and with-version-control way.

Do all things on source branch.

Configuration

1. Fork this repo, rename it to your-username.github.io and git clone to your computer.
2. Delete source/CNAME or change its content to your own custom domain.
3. Delete the source/_drafts/ and source/_posts/ folders.
4. Modify other configurations as needed, especially _config.yml in the root folder and the source/_data/melody.yml(Follow the hexo-theme-melody-doc).
5. Modify .travis.yml and .gitlab-ci.yml for continuous integration build your blog. See this post for more information.
6. Sync and activate your repo on https://travis-ci.com/.

Environment variables you need to config

For security, we should not publish our personal API keys on GitHub repo.

1. GH_TOKEN

   See https://github.com/settings/tokens

2. GL_TOKEN(only if you use GitLab)

   See https://gitlab.com/profile/personal_access_tokens

3. Algolia search(only if you use Algolia)

   See hexo-algoliasearch/lib/algolia.js

   You need four environment variables: ALGOLIA_APP_ID, ALGOLIA_API_KEY, ALGOLIA_ADMIN_API_KEY and ALGOLIA_INDEX_NAME.

Configure them in Travis settings like below:

Start blogging

1. Write a post

   $ hexo new post my-first-post
   ... writing...

2. deploy to the origin

   ./deploy.sh "Added: my first post"

   or just

   ./deploy.sh

   which is equivalent to

   ./deploy.sh "Updated: blog source"