Hugo Static Site Generator Documentation

Hugo is a fast static site generator written in Go. It features an advanced templating system and high-performance asset pipelines.

Key capabilities include:

• CSS Processing: Bundling, transformation, minification, source maps, SRI hashing, and PostCSS integration.
• Image Processing: Resizing, cropping, rotating, color adjustment, filtering, text/image overlays, and metadata extraction.
• JavaScript Bundling: TypeScript/JSX transpilation, bundling, tree shaking, minification, and SRI hashing.
• Sass Processing: Transpiling Sass to CSS, bundling, tree shaking, minification, and PostCSS integration.
• Tailwind CSS Processing: Compiling utility classes, bundling, tree shaking, optimization, and minification.
• Hugo Modules: Allows sharing content, assets, data, translations, themes, templates, and configuration via Git repositories.

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, optimized for speed and flexibility. It uses an advanced templating system and fast asset pipelines to render complete sites in seconds.

Key capabilities include:

• Rapid Rendering: Optimized for speed to handle large sites.
• Development Workflow: Includes an embedded web server that provides instant feedback on changes to content, structure, and presentation.
• Hugo Modules: Allows sharing of content, assets, data, translations, themes, templates, and configuration across projects using public or private Git repositories.
• Versatile Use Cases: Ideal for documentation sites, corporate/government sites, blogs, portfolios, and landing pages.
• Advanced Features: Built-in support for multilingual content and a powerful taxonomy system.

Hugo is a fast and flexible static site generator written in Go. It renders complete sites in seconds using advanced templating and fast asset pipelines. Hugo supports:

• Asset Pipelines: CSS processing (bundle, transform, minify, source maps, SRI), Image processing (convert, resize, crop, rotate, filters), JavaScript bundling (transpile TypeScript/JSX, bundle, tree shake), Sass processing (transpile, bundle, integrate with PostCSS), and Tailwind CSS processing.
• Hugo Modules: Share content, assets, data, translations, themes, templates, and configuration via public or private Git repositories.
• Use Cases: Corporate/government sites, documentation, portfolios, landing pages, blogs, and CVs.

Use Hugo's embedded web server during development to instantly see changes. Deploy to any host or push to Git providers for automated builds.

Sources: README.md

Hugo offers three primary ways to implement syntax highlighting in your site:

1. Fenced code blocks: Use standard Markdown fenced code blocks within your content files.
2. highlight shortcode: Use the {{% highlight ... %}} shortcode within any supported content format.
3. transform.Highlight function: Call this function directly within your Hugo templates for programmatic control.

To trigger semantic syntax highlighting in fenced code blocks, you must provide a known language identifier (e.g., go, python). If the identifier is omitted or unsupported, Hugo will render the block as plain text.

Hugo includes built-in asset pipelines for processing various file types:

• CSS: Bundling, transforming, minifying, creating source maps, SRI hashing, and PostCSS integration.
• JavaScript: Transpiling TypeScript and JSX, bundling, tree shaking, minifying, source maps, and SRI hashing.
• Sass: Transpiling Sass to CSS, bundling, tree shaking, source maps, SRI hashing, and PostCSS integration.
• Tailwind CSS: Compiling utility classes into standard CSS, bundling, tree shaking, optimization, minification, SRI hashing, and PostCSS integration.
• Images: Converting, resizing, cropping, rotating, adjusting colors, applying filters, overlaying text/images, and extracting metadata.

Hugo allows you to mix multiple content formats throughout your site. Regardless of the format used, all content files must include front matter (preferably containing title and date).

Hugo determines which renderer to use based on the markup identifier in the front matter, falling back to the file extension if the identifier is absent.

Supported formats include:

• Markdown: Hugo's default format (rendered via Goldmark).
• HTML: Raw HTML content (requires explicit security configuration).
• Emacs Org Mode: Native support for Org Mode files.
• AsciiDoc: Requires the asciidoctor executable and Ruby.
• Pandoc: Requires the pandoc executable.
• reStructuredText: Requires Docutils (specifically rst2html) and Python.