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I wanted to go cookieless on this website, so I had to swap Google Analytics with Umami.
Since I’m on the free plan, I didn’t want the script to register events while I’m working on my website on localhost. So, I had to rely on a conditional script inclusion, which I’ll share with you in this post.
Disable Scripts on Hugo Localhost
There’s more than one way to do this, but I’ll show you the one I’m using, which I think is the easiest and most practical.
I used the hugo.IsServer function, which checks whether the built-in development server is running. The “built-in development server” refers to the hugo server command.
All you have to do is add this code into your <head> section, or whenever you need to place the script.
{{ if not hugo.IsServer }}
// code or a partial with the code goes here
{{ end }}
How it works
hugo.IsServer returns true when you run your site in development using hugo server, so the script won’t appear.
When you build for production using hugo, hugo.IsServer is false, so the script will appear.
That’s a Wrap
I hope this post has helped you out.
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