Hugo, a static website generator
Just a couple of days ago I posted about jkl, a static website generator written in Go, and based on Jekyll.
While setting up jkl, I stumbled over Hugo! I was impressed at first sight with Hugo. Since then I have reconfigured my site to work with Hugo. I didn’t have to fiddle with the Hugo code, everything just works, and it really does most everything that comes to mind. This whole website thing has been bothering me for a long time; and finally I am a happy champer.
There are a few thinks I still have to setup, like the indexes are done but the links don’t seam to work as expected, or I am doing something wrong. However this is minor considering that I am glad that Hugo even has a link and menu generating system.
Also the rss feeds needs some work, but again Hugo has that build in, I just have to set it up right.
Hugo’s front matter can be defined with YAML, TOML, or JSON. Which one you like is up to you, you can even use a different one on each page. Here is the TOML for this page:
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linktitle = "Huge"
title = "Hugo, a static website generator"
description = "Hugo is a static website generator written in the Go programing language"
keywords = ["code","go", "golang", "website","static","generator"]
tags = ["code","go","website"]
groups = ["blog"]
language = "en"
date = "2013-12-01"
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