Hugo

We have been using Bit.ly to create easily shareable short URLs, but we recently decided to replace it with our own solution. We created a Hugo-based static website where we could create the short URLs, handle redirects to their respective long URLs, and have a page for each short URL displaying its QR code.

We recently moved this website from Django to a static website made using Hugo, and decided to use Cloudflare Pages to deploy it. Cloudflare Pages offers automatic deployments, meaning it can automatically build and deploy a website when changes are pushed to a GitHub branch. This is simple to set up and works well. However, we wanted to build and deploy using GitHub Actions instead, so that the build logs would be easily accessible on GitHub. Cloudflare’s wrangler-action makes it simple to set up a GitHub Actions workflow for this.