Hugo

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A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator written in Go

What is Hugo?

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.
Hugo is a tool in the Static Site Generators category of a tech stack.

Who is using it?

260 companies use Hugo in their tech stacks, including Buzzvil, Braincube, and NetApp.

Buzzvil

Braincube

NetApp

Honeycomb

Hapticmedia

Frontend Masters 💻✨

giffgaff

cloud

Raygun

Camunda

Fraunhofer

zetaops

Why developers like Hugo

Lightning fast
Single Executable
Easy setup
Great development community
Open source
Write in golang
Not HTML only - JSON, RSS
Hacker mindset
LiveReload built in