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A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by bep, spf13 and friends in Go.
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Overview
Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full HTML website.
Hugo relies on Markdown files with front matter for metadata, and you can run Hugo from any directory. This works well for shared hosts and other systems where you don’t have a privileged account.
Hugo renders a typical website of moderate size in a fraction of a second. A good rule of thumb is that each piece of content renders in around 1 millisecond.
Hugo is designed to work well for any kind of website including blogs, tumbles, and docs.
Supported Architectures
Currently, we provide pre-built Hugo binaries for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS (Darwin), and Android for x64, i386 and ARM architectures.
Hugo may also be compiled from source wherever the Go compiler tool chain can run, e.g. for other operating systems including DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, and Solaris.
Complete documentation is available at Hugo Documentation.
Choose How to Install
If you want to use Hugo as your site generator, simply install the Hugo binaries. The Hugo binaries have no external dependencies.
To contribute to the Hugo source code or documentation, you should fork the Hugo GitHub project and clone it to your local machine.
Finally, you can install the Hugo source code with go, build the binaries yourself, and run Hugo that way.
Building the binaries is an easy task for an experienced go getter.
Install Hugo as Your Site Generator (Binary Install)
Use the installation instructions in the Hugo documentation.
Build and Install the Binaries from Source (Advanced Install)
Prerequisite Tools
Vendored Dependencies
Hugo uses dep to vendor dependencies, but we don't commit the vendored packages themselves to the Hugo git repository. Therefore, a simple go get is not supported because the command is not vendor aware.
The simplest way is to use mage (a Make alternative for Go projects.)
Fetch from GitHub
go get github.com/magefile/mage
go get -d github.com/gohugoio/hugo
cd ${GOPATH:-$HOME/go}/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo
mage vendor
mage install
If you are a Windows user, substitute the $HOME environment variable above with %USERPROFILE%.
The Hugo Documentation
The Hugo documentation now lives in its own repository, see https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs. But we do keep a version of that documentation as a git subtree in this repository. To build the sub folder /docs as a Hugo site, you need to clone this repo:
git clone git@github.com:gohugoio/hugo.git
Contributing to Hugo
For a complete guide to contributing to Hugo, see the Contribution Guide.
We welcome contributions to Hugo of any kind including documentation, themes, organization, tutorials, blog posts, bug reports, issues, feature requests, feature implementations, pull requests, answering questions on the forum, helping to manage issues, etc.
The Hugo community and maintainers are very active and helpful, and the project benefits greatly from this activity.
Asking Support Questions
We have an active discussion forum where users and developers can ask questions. Please don't use the GitHub issue tracker to ask questions.
Reporting Issues
If you believe you have found a defect in Hugo or its documentation, use
the GitHub issue tracker to report the problem to the Hugo maintainers.
If you're not sure if it's a bug or not, start by asking in the discussion forum.
When reporting the issue, please provide the version of Hugo in use (hugo version).
Submitting Patches
The Hugo project welcomes all contributors and contributions regardless of skill or experience level. If you are interested in helping with the project, we will help you with your contribution. Hugo is a very active project with many contributions happening daily.
Because we want to create the best possible product for our users and the best contribution experience for our developers, we have a set of guidelines which ensure that all contributions are acceptable. The guidelines are not intended as a filter or barrier to participation. If you are unfamiliar with the contribution process, the Hugo team will help you and teach you how to bring your contribution in accordance with the guidelines.
For a complete guide to contributing code to Hugo, see the Contribution Guide.
Documentation
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Source Files
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Package bufferpool provides a pool of bytes buffers.
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Package bufferpool provides a pool of bytes buffers. |
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Package commands defines and implements command-line commands and flags used by Hugo.
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Package commands defines and implements command-line commands and flags used by Hugo. |
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common
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errors
Package errors contains common Hugo errors and error related utilities.
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Package errors contains common Hugo errors and error related utilities. |
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types
Package types contains types shared between packages in Hugo.
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Package types contains types shared between packages in Hugo. |
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Package create provides functions to create new content.
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Package create provides functions to create new content. |
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Package docshelper provides some helpers for the Hugo documentation, and is of limited interest for the general Hugo user.
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Package docshelper provides some helpers for the Hugo documentation, and is of limited interest for the general Hugo user. |
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Package helpers implements general utility functions that work with and on content.
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Package helpers implements general utility functions that work with and on content. |
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Package hugofs provides the file systems used by Hugo.
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Package hugofs provides the file systems used by Hugo. |
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filesystems
Package filesystems provides the fine grained file systems used by Hugo.
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Package filesystems provides the fine grained file systems used by Hugo. |
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Package metrics provides simple metrics tracking features.
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Package metrics provides simple metrics tracking features. |
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Package minifiers contains minifiers mapped to MIME types.
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Package minifiers contains minifiers mapped to MIME types. |
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Package related holds code to help finding related content.
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Package related holds code to help finding related content. |
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Package releaser implements a set of utilities and a wrapper around Goreleaser to help automate the Hugo release process.
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Package releaser implements a set of utilities and a wrapper around Goreleaser to help automate the Hugo release process. |
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bundler
Package bundler contains functions for concatenation etc.
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Package bundler contains functions for concatenation etc. |
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create
Package create contains functions for to create Resource objects.
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Package create contains functions for to create Resource objects. |
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templates
Package templates contains functions for template processing of Resource objects.
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Package templates contains functions for template processing of Resource objects. |
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tplimpl/embedded
Package embedded defines the internal templates that Hugo provides.
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Package embedded defines the internal templates that Hugo provides. |