Hugo static site generator

“Hugo is the best of the bunch, but in the end, setting it up is still a hassle.”

“The magic of a static HTML blog is you don't have to think about performance.”

“pretty simple to use once you wrap your mind around how they structure things”

“I have full control over the inputs for hugo and the output is pure static HTML.”

“I asked Codex to rewrite our website as Hugo templates which allowed us to statically host it”

“Its enogh for you or me. Not for someone who has never used a command line.”

“I think Hugo is enough, if you want a web admin interface or an editor it goes into the CMS region which becomes bulky and hard to manage”

“start with something more low-level and barebones like a static site generator (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc.)”

“Then you can host your site anywhere and don't have to worry about security problems.”

“It's the fastest of the mainstream SSGs (single Go binary, no Node toolchain)”

“I use it on my personal website. It has a lot of themes/plugins and very easy to use.”

“They deprecate and then remove or rename template variables like crazy.”

“If all you need is a, well, static website without forms or such, Hugo is an easy winner.”

“The blog is running already on hugo on full llm automation but I had though it would not work for documentation”

“Fiddling with custom DSLs, templates, weird builds and tricks ... was just way too time consuming”

“I am very happy with Hugo and how they love to solve problems in detail and think through features to the end.”

“That's the beauty of building HTML: you don't HAVE to stay up to date to get security fixes.”

“I just built the binary, stuffed it in my repo and continued to use the same version for years.”

“I've been working for the last two weeks on our Hugo website to do some major modernization”

“I realised SSGs don't make sense for 99% of sites, but are recommended to 99% of people.”

“I "solved" this issue by using a custom Docker image, both for writing/serving content locally, and for the CI.”

“Custom server side software is a complete solution, SSGs restrict what your complete solution can be without being one themselves.”

“a hugo binary that will most probably work on any linux or mac for the next 10 years”

“Once I setup GitHub actions with Hugo (there’s one readily available), I rarely build the blog locally anymore.”

“Frankly, I find Go templating and other Jinja style templating an exhausting mental exercise.”

“Hugo overhauled its templating system in v0.146 which resulted in build fails for my blog when I upgraded”

“Hugo hasn't been great in that regard. Themes and well functioning inputs do break with updates”

“I've been using Hugo for the past 3 years. Biggest lesson I learned is to just fork the theme you're using and don't use submodules.”

“overall it's been a net win but boy do I find myself looking up syntax in the docs a lot”

“The only thing I don’t like about Hugo is the experience of using other people’s themes.”

“The only thing I don't like about Hugo is the experience of using other people's themes.”

“Probably 3/4 of those had issues when trying to publish due to issues with Hugo.”

“I've found it significantly faster than Jekyll which makes iterating much more pleasant”

“I run Hugo to build all static content, check it locally, then push it via rsync.”

“I recently broke my Hugo blog theme when updating and had to migrate to a whole new theme, it was a pain.”

“I've had the same issues as you, and yes, I agree that pinning a version is very important for Hugo.”

“I highly recommend it to everyone who wants to start their own blog.”

“it’s easy to deploy the resulting bundle on various hosting services”

“I had a great experience with using Hugo to set up a relatively complex multilang website”

“by changing output to 'mathml,' you can have the browser render equations with zero dependencies”