- Forestry.io is an online editor for Hugo sites, an improvement over scribe.io.
- The preview feature doesn’t support all Hugo shortcodes.
- It lacks spell checking, mobile responsiveness, and the ability to move files between folders.
- It feels designed primarily for Jekyll with Hugo support as secondary.
- Hugo with IntelliJ IDEA for writing and Hugo’s live reload server for previewing.
- Deployment is automated via a bash script triggered by git push or GitHub webhooks.
- The site is hosted on a DigitalOcean server with nginx, PageSpeed module, and brotli compression.
- This setup achieved a 100/100 Google PageSpeed score on both mobile and desktop.