hugo

Hugo is the world’s fastest framework for building websites, written in Go.

Setup Hugo

Ubuntu

Download and install the hugo deb file from the release page.

Windows

chocolatey:

choco install hugo-extended

Go compiler is needed for Hugo modules

choco install golang

GitHub actions

Use peaceiris/actions-hugo

name: Deploy Hugo site to Pages

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]
  workflow_dispatch:

# Allow only one concurrent deployment
concurrency:
  group: pages-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

jobs:
  # Build job
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true # Fetch Hugo themes (true OR recursive)
          fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch all history for .GitInfo and .Lastmod
      - name: Setup Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
        with:
          hugo-version: 'latest'
          extended: true
      - name: Caching Hugo Modules
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: ~/.cache/hugo_cache
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-hugomod-${{ hashFiles('**/go.sum') }}
          restore-keys: |
            ${{ runner.os }}-hugomod-
      - name: Setup Pages
        id: pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@v3
      - name: Build
        run: hugo --gc --minify --baseURL ${{ steps.pages.outputs.base_url }}
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v2
        with:
          path: ./public

  # Deployment job
  deploy:
    needs: build
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
    # Grant GITHUB_TOKEN the permissions required to make a Pages deployment
    permissions:
      pages: write # to deploy to Pages
      id-token: write # to verify the deployment originates from an appropriate source
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v2

Docker

klakegg/hugo docker image.

FROM klakegg/hugo

Hugo themes

A list of Hugo themes I found useful

Documentation

• vantagedesign/ace-documentation
• gethyas/doks
• alex-shpak/hugo-book. Template: sosiristseng/template-hugo-book
• thegeeklab/hugo-geekdoc
• McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn. Template: sosiristseng/template-hugo-relearn

Blogs

• HEIGE-PCloud/DoIt. Template: sosiristseng/template-hugo-doit
• hugo-fixit/FixIt. Template: hugo-fixit/hugo-fixit-starter
• chipzoller/hugo-clarity
• cntrump/hugo-notepadium
• adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod
• razonyang/hugo-theme-bootstrap
• reuixiy/hugo-theme-meme
• CaiJimmy/hugo-theme-stack. Template: CaiJimmy/hugo-theme-stack-starter
• hugo-toha/toha
• HugoBlox/hugo-blox-builder

Hugo theme components

• Hugo modules: Various modules for Hugo
• hugo-notice : A Hugo theme component to display nice notices.

Hugo tips

Parse relative links

Forum link

You can use this form normally in Hugo

[My Article](../my-article/index.md)

by adding the following lines to project/layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html

<a href="{{ (.Page.GetPage .Destination).RelPermalink | safeURL }}">{{ .Text | safeHTML }}</a>

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