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Hugo: an almost ideal static website generator

stereobooster on August 19, 2019

I use Hugo for my blog. For me, as a developer, this is an ideal experience. I can edit markdown files in my editor of choice. I can open-source ...
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Hunter Chang

You should try out Gatsby.js. Static site generator based in React, also amazing performance.

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stereobooster

I don't have free week to configure it

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Theofanis Despoudis

I use it on my site github.com/theodesp/codethat

It's true, that somehow the custom shortcode tags are not ideal but if you have an HTML theme it's easier to convert it with Hugo than Gatsby.

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Adrian Simmons

If you want a custom site or section ToC then you can use a section page template gohugo.io/templates/section-templa...

If its single page ToC you need to customize then use a custom list template gohugo.io/templates/lists/

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Ciro Santilli

Yes, and this also allows creating your own tags easily with plugins: github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantil... although replacing existing constructs is not supported yet: github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor...

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jeikabu • Edited

Wish GitHub pages had jekyll-asciidoctor

Ah, and looks like it's been requested, but in the wrong place...

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E.R. Nurwijayadi

I wrote article series about Hugo.

epsi-rns.gitlab.io/ssg/2019/04/01/...

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E.R. Nurwijayadi

I miss template Inheritance, just like in Nunjucks (11ty).