Advantages/features of Hugo

Hugo comes with a lot of advantages:

1. Speed: Hugo is insanely fast, it builds a page in less than a millisecond. This makes Hugo “the fastest static site generator in the world”. a major credit of this goes to Go in which Hugo is written.

2. Open-source and community support: Hugo has a large community of professionals using it and since it’s open-sourced, it has a large community of programmers contributing to the code base helping to make it better day by day.

3. Easy to use themes: Hugo comes with a lot of free and open-source themes for absolute beginners to create their first Hugo site easily. Their are some paid Hugo themes for professionals as well.

4. Content: Hugo allows to display content in multiple file formats like (yaml, toml, and json) which makes the journey of content creation with Hugo really smooth. It is very simple and straight-forward in Hugo to create content, since Hugo can directly fetch content data from a markdown file.

These are some of the major advantages of Hugo, to learn more you can checkout the official Hugo features page.

Hugo is a fast and modern static site generator written in Golang. Hugo is the world’s fastest static site generator, wondering what a static site generator is? will explain it in the Third paragraph, till then let’s discuss Hugo. Hugo is primarily written in Golang, But you don’t need to know Golang to work in Hugo. Website generation in Hugo is very simple and straightforward, only prerequisites are HTML and CSS. It was created by Bjørn Erik Pedersen, also known as “bep,” its first release was on July 17, 2013.