Complete Guide to Hugo Static Site Generator

Deep dive into Hugo's powerful features, from basic configuration to advanced theme development, building modern static websites.

Complete Guide to Hugo Static Site Generator

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that is known for its extremely fast build speed and clean design. This article will take you deep into Hugo’s powerful features.

Why Choose Hugo?

Hugo has the following advantages:

  • Extremely fast build speed: Hugo can build websites with thousands of pages in seconds
  • Simple configuration: Configure through TOML, YAML or JSON files
  • Rich theme ecosystem: Has a large number of open source themes to choose from
  • Powerful template system: Based on Go’s template engine, powerful and flexible

Installation and Basic Usage

Installing Hugo

# macOS
brew install hugo

# Windows
choco install hugo

# Linux
sudo apt-get install hugo

Creating a New Site

hugo new site my-blog
cd my-blog

Adding a Theme

git init
git submodule add https://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke

Configuration and Content Management

Hugo uses Markdown files to manage content, and each content file can contain front matter to define metadata.

Summary

Hugo is a powerful and easy-to-use static site generator, especially suitable for blogs, documentation websites and corporate websites. Through this article, you should have a basic understanding of Hugo and can start building your own static website.