Building Your Own Blog on K1

We can build our own static blog on K1 to record our life and study. There are many ways to implement a blog. Today, we will use Hexo to build our first blog.

Introduction to Hexo

Hexo is a fast, simple, and efficient blog framework. Hexo parses articles using Markdown (or other markup languages) and can generate static web pages with beautiful themes within seconds.

Installing Hexo

The installation of Hexo requires a nodejs environment, npm, and git. Let’s install its prerequisites first. If you already have them, you can skip this step.

sudo apt install nodejs
sudo apt install npm
sudo apt install git

After the installation is completed, we can start installing Hexo.

sudo npm install -g hexo-cli

At this point, we have completed the installation of Hexo.

Using Hexo

After installing Hexo, please execute the following commands. Hexo will create the required files in the specified folder.

$ hexo init <folder>
$ cd <folder>
$ npm install

After initialization, your project folder will be as follows:

├── _config.yml
├── package.json
├── scaffolds
|── source
|   ├── _drafts
|   └── _posts
└── themes

Run hexo server, and you can access your blog locally.

bitbrick@k1:~$ cd blog
bitbrick@k1:~/blog$ hexo server
INFO  Validating config
INFO  Start processing
INFO  Hexo is running at http://localhost:4000/. Press Ctrl+C to stop.

For more information on using Hexo, please visit the official website: https://hexo.io/.