Hugo
Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages. Hugo flexibly works with many formats and is ideal for blogs, docs, portfolios and much more.
- Free • Open Source
- Static Site Generator
- Website Builder
- Blog Publishing Tool
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
What is Hugo?
What is Hugo?
Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is a static site generator. This means that, unlike systems like WordPress, Ghost and Drupal, which run on your web server expensively building a page every time a visitor requests one, Hugo does the building when you create your content. Since websites are viewed far more often than they are edited, Hugo is optimized for website viewing while providing a great writing experience.
Sites built with Hugo are extremely fast and very secure. Hugo sites can be hosted anywhere, including Heroku, GoDaddy, DreamHost, GitHub Pages, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3 and CloudFront, and work well with CDNs. Hugo sites run without dependencies on expensive runtimes like Ruby, Python or PHP and without dependencies on any databases.
We think of Hugo as the ideal website creation tool. With nearly instant build times and the ability to rebuild whenever a change is made, Hugo provides a very fast feedback loop. This is essential when you are designing websites, but also very useful when creating content.
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Hugo information
- Developed byGoHugo.io
- LicensingOpen Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.7
- Alternatives76 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 66,226 Stars
- 7,106 Forks
- 724 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Website Builder
- Blog Publishing
- CMS
- static-website
- blogging-engine
Categories
Development • Social & Communications • Photos & Graphics • Business & Commerce • Online ServicesLists containing Hugo
My Setup - All Apps and Software • Core, Development & Services • Web CMS Builders • Web CMS BuildersRecent user activities on Hugo
omarbenson added Hugo as alternative(s) to Cloudpad | Google doc as a website- andreamazzilli liked Hugoan
dygotron doesn't think TronLite Technology is an alternative to Hugo
This is an absolute game-changer for me, no need for the Wordpress stack anymore for simple websites for clients.
Easy, fast, elegant blog software, perfect for landing pages as well.
[Edited by zielniok, June 23]
Fast, easy to use, active community and lots of themes. The documentation is very bad once you want to do something custom though and lots of alternatives have been popping up lately.
It is simple and fast. The only hurdle to overcome are custom themes but once you get a foothold progress pours like a waterfall. I love the workflow and integrated support of SASS in form of Hugo pipes.
free and open source very easy lightweight a lot of beautiful themes which are also free/opensource and very customizable (some even have user comments functionality) a good amount of ci/cd services already have integration with Hugo and if you use org-mode on Emacs you can use ox-hugo for seamlessly converting the org files to markdown.
It's much easier to use than Jekyll, it's faster, and the documentation is cleaner.