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Hugo Quick Reference

Introduction Why a static website generator and why Hugo? because it’s a simple solution that works. For business card sites or blogs, you don’t need a complex backend. All settings in one file hugo.toml or hugo.yaml in a declarative style, so everything is very concise. The TOML and YAML formats are so simple that you can set up a site without even delving into learning these formats. You don’t need to delve into HTML, CSS, and JS to create content. Content is created in Markdown .md files. Markdown format is much simpler. There are plenty of Markdown syntax guides on the internet. For example, here. The Hugo program is just a single binary file written in Go and has no additional dependencies. Hugo generates a site very quickly. Installation The Hugo website has a great guide on how to install Hugo for different operating systems and different package managers. But there is one caveat. Operating systems like Debian or MX Linux are focused on stability, so some packages in their repositories may be outdated. And the first thing you will do after creating a project using Hugo will be to install a site theme. And if Hugo is an outdated version, a significant number of themes will not work correctly. Therefore, for operating systems like Debian or MX Linux, I recommend downloading the latest stable version of Hugo as a .deb file from the Hugo GitHub repository and installing it. Additionally, you will need Git for your operating system. ...

June 19, 2025 · 6 min · Serhii Nosov