Hugo

Hugo is a simple, boring, cheap and fast blogging engine.

It is simple in that there is not much to learn. You just write your content in markdown.

It is boring in that you don’t have to worry about then engine itself. You can just concentrate on making content, and let hugo worry about making it render.

It is cheap in that Hugo is free, open source software. On top of this, a Hugo site can be hosted on the web for free. The only cost, so far, is if you want a custom domain name.

It is fast in that it is written using Go as the core, which is a fast language.

Hugo seems pretty simple to use, and so we’ll get on with how to install it, create a site, deploy the site, then finally add some content.

I am only just learning how to use Hugo, so this is what I have found, and how I have got it set up and running. Hopefully the steps will be useful for anyone else who is interested in creating a site.

The process for actually creating content is:

• Write a post using markdown
• Commit the changes to git
• Use an action to deploy those changes

For more information, check out:

• Official site
• Wikipedia
• Github repository