alt.hn

5/20/2026 at 9:57:18 PM

Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo

 https://github.com/arashthr/hugo-flow

by arashThr

5/24/2026 at 2:44:59 PM

Very cool, fills a niche. Could you put a link to the demo right in the README.md? It's hard to click through on mobile

by hiAndrewQuinn

5/24/2026 at 5:04:48 PM

> fills a niche

theres a lot of git based CMSes out there. what is the niche you perceive? (not being critical just want to see what you see)

by swyx

5/24/2026 at 1:26:36 PM

I have used hugo both dircetly and also via Netlify hosting.

Maintaining the side on a PC became tedious.

Netlify made life easier by emoving dependency on a local machine and offering an online CMS -- but the UX of editing is very irksome and not conducive to writing.

There were a few nagging bugs in the Netlify CMS editor -- like cursor always jumping to end of line if you are trying to edit in middle of a line. I finnaly fixed this bug by spending 30 mintes with Claude Code.

But yeah -- I have been meaning to build my own online CMS to allow frictionless editing and blog posting. Will either use this or take some inspiration from this for sure. Good work - looks nice!

by albert_e

5/24/2026 at 5:17:33 PM

Not to nickpick, but it seems GitHub centric. Is there a way it could be used simply with git (running on a VPS, on the user space, that is, accessed via SSH)?

by davidcollantes

5/24/2026 at 1:24:51 PM

Is it similar to battle tested DecapCMS? https://decapcms.org/

by gregman1

5/24/2026 at 5:06:33 PM

i did a bit of work on netlifycms, and am a bit disappointed that decapcms's website doesnt seem to acknowledge that history.

by swyx

5/24/2026 at 1:36:57 PM

You could have told your LLM to NOT use node/js/npm and made the thing far more secure from day one. Npm is a security nightmare.

Also you say it’s git-based but it depends on GitHub. GitHub is not git. What if I want to use another git forge or god forbid a local repo?

I have a similar thing but it doesn’t assume GitHub and is coded in Python (by hand, it’s like 100 lines of Python and flask). Serves my needs! Simple and dumb.

by loloquwowndueo

5/24/2026 at 2:24:59 PM

Link?

by e-Minguez

5/24/2026 at 3:23:23 PM

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