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Hugo
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that builds websites from Markdown content and customizable templates.
About Hugo
Hugo takes your content files written in Markdown, combines them with theme templates, and outputs a complete static website ready to deploy on any web server. It is known for being ridiculously fast. A single binary compiles entire sites in milliseconds even with hundreds of pages. The tool uses Go templates for layouts, supports shortcodes for rich media embedding, and includes built-in asset pipeline features like CSS/JS bundling and image processing. Hugo works with any hosting environment that serves static files from Netlify to a basic Apache server. Its taxonomy system lets you organize content by tags, categories, or custom groupings. The active open source community maintains over 300 themes. Hugo is developed by the company gohugoio and released under the Apache 2.0 license. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. If you need a blog, documentation site, or corporate brochure site without the overhead of a database or server-side processing, Hugo is a solid choice.
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Quick Facts
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- Open Source
- Platform
- Any Platform
- Version
- 0.128.0
- Developer
- gohugoio