Just set it to whatever you want. Hugo is going to convert it to localhost when running the local server. Forget everything I said about the blank string. It was to illustrate that Hugo is smart enough to set it to localhost.
Depends on the problem you’re talking about, but if you are passing the baseURL as a flag, then yes, mind the issue I mentioned before…
There are multiple options available to you here.
Also, if you have a dev environment, I’m going to assume it doesn’t matter whether your meta property for something like OGP is set to marijuanadaily.net or yadayadayada because you’re not going to share links or have that site crawled the same way you will prod…