Hugo
Blazing fast static site generator for blogs and sites
Hugo is one of the fastest open-source static site generators, written in Go. It builds blogs, documentation, and websites from Markdown content with thousands of available themes.
Key features
- Extremely fast builds
- Markdown content
- Huge theme library
- Single binary install
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Outstanding build speed
- No server-side runtime needed
Trade-offs
- Templating has a learning curve
- No built-in admin UI
Hugo replaces
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