I’m perhaps a bit late to the Quarto party, but, after some delay, I decided overcoming my laziness and started to migrate my old blogdown/hugo website to Quarto.
I’ve been using Rmarkdown for some time and, recently, started using quarto for academic writing and making presentations. Even though quarto is indeed a powerful tool, for the mentioned purposes, it is not that different from Rmarkdown or Xaringan (except for the fact that revealjs is just great!). However, since I’m not an avid blog user, updating blogdown was always a pain due to the many Hugo updates and inherited conflicts.
After reading some posts about the power of blogging using quarto and how easy and intuitive it was, I decided to give it a try and, indeed, the moving was way easier than expected! I’d say that the most “complicated” part was to get used to the new pandoc args (:::) and learn some html/css tricks (which I’m still changing/learning, mostly from David Schoch, Sam Csik and Kazuharu Yanagimoto.
Here are some posts that helped me a ton during the first steps:
Porting a distill blog to quarto
The ultimate guide to starting a Quarto blog
Creating a blog with Quarto in 10 steps
Since I had already a website deployed on Netlify, which was linked to a GitHub repository, I just changed the linked GitHub repository on Netlify webpage and followed this tutorial:
https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/netlify.html
I created the _publish.yml using my old Netlify id and url;
Then, I left only _site on the “Basic build settings”, removing the “Hugo” reference on the “Build command” field;
Further, I created the netlify.toml and package.json files, and finally both publish.yml and Netlify credentials on GitHub (all steps described here are well detailed on the link above). After doing that, I just had to push all changes to GitHub and the website was live!