gohugoio/hugo

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. A static site generator is a program that takes your written content and design templates and produces a finished website made of plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, files that any web host can serve directly without needing a database or application code. The advantage is speed: pages are pre-built once and served as files, so they load quickly and the site is cheap to host. Hugo focuses on rendering speed during the build itself, generating a complete site in seconds. The way Hugo works is that you write your pages as Markdown or other content files, set up templates that define the layout, and Hugo combines them into a finished site each time you run the build command. It includes an asset pipeline that can process images, bundle and minify CSS and JavaScript, transpile Sass and Tailwind CSS, and integrate with PostCSS. There is a built-in development web server that reloads pages as you edit. Multilingual support and a flexible taxonomy system are baked in. Hugo Modules let you share themes, content, and configuration across projects through Git repositories. You would use Hugo when you want to build a documentation site, a personal or company blog, a project landing page, an image portfolio, a resume, or a corporate site, and you want it to deploy as static files. Installation is via prebuilt binaries, package managers, or building from source with Go 1.25 or later and Git. There are several editions, standard, deploy, extended, and extended-deploy, depending on whether you need direct cloud deployment to Google Cloud Storage, AWS S3, or Azure, or LibSass support.