Database-driven sites bring complexity you might not need, but building
a site by hand is too much work. Hugo is a static site generator and web
development framework that creates content sites quickly without the
overhead or dependencies of a dyanmic web framework. With Hugo, you use
HTML templates and Markdown to build static sites you can host anywhere,
letting you use the skills you already have.
Develop your own theme using standard HTML and CSS, using Hugo's
powerful templating features to organize your site's components. Create
your site's content with HTML or Markdown and use Hugo's content
templating features to build new content quickly. Build a fully-featured
blog with archive pages, tagging, and pagination, and integrate an
external commenting system to provide interactivity. Use data from
front-matter, site-wide configuration, and external JSON sources to add
content, and generate JSON others can use. Integrate JavaScript with
your site to create a search engine. Get Hugo working with Webpack so
you can leverage the wider web development ecosystem, and explore ways
to publish your site to various services. Finally, learn how you can
move your existing content site to Hugo.
Dive in and build your next site with Hugo!
