Hugo

Hugo is a fast and flexible static site generator written in Go. It takes content written in Markdown and uses templates to generate a complete HTML website.

Tutorial

Here’s a common way to use Hugo for local development:

# Navigate to the website directory
cd website/

# Start the Hugo development server
hugo server -D

This command will build the site and serve it locally, usually at http://localhost:1313/. The -D flag ensures that draft content is also built.

Usage in this Project

The documentation website for this project (the site you might be viewing this on if you’re reading it online) is built using Hugo.

  • Content: All documentation content is located in the website/content/ directory, primarily in Markdown format.
  • Themes and Layouts: The site uses a Hugo theme (located in website/themes/) and custom layouts to structure and style the content.
  • Building and Serving:
    • The ./bin/bash/setup.sh hugo script can install Hugo and start a local development server.
    • The GitHub Actions workflow in .github/workflows/website.yml automatically builds and deploys the website to GitHub Pages.

Hugo’s speed and simplicity make it an excellent choice for generating project documentation.