Switching to hexo.io

After trying to upgrade my Jekyll version from two years ago, and failing miserably, i decided to look for alternatives.

Meet Hexo.io

What is it?

• it’s basically jekyll written in JavaScript
• it just works with jekyll Markdown files
• renders to static HTML
• has plugins

The entire migration took me (incl. overdoing some pages and adding new ones) about 3 hours.

Since i am running nixos on my Macs, it’s easily doable with a shell.nix.

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:

let
  lib = import <nixpkgs/lib>;
  NODE_MODULES_PREFIX = toString ./node_modules;

in pkgs.mkShell {
  packages = with pkgs; [
    nodejs
    nodePackages.npm
  ];

  inherit NODE_MODULES_PREFIX;

  shellHook = ''
    export PATH="$PATH:$NODE_MODULES_PREFIX/hexo-cli/bin"
    npm install
  '';
}

Now i can just cd into my repo and run nix-shell and have hexo ready in my path, ready to make new posts!