HUGO

Hugo is an open-source static site generation framework. I don’t know where the ‘HU’ in HUGO comes from, but I suspect the ‘GO’ part stems from the fact that HUGO is written in GO, which might be the reason why it’s lightning-fast.

The functionalities of HUGO can roughly be divided into four areas:

• web site and web site theme generation (generating a web site scaffolding, generating content files from templates, generating CSS files from templates).
• a high performance web site development server that reloads changes to the web site on the fly.
• a tool to generate a static web site from a web site base of markdown files and templates written in go.
• a tool to deploy a web site to a server or into the cloud.

HUGO comes with a decent documentation.

Mike Dane published an excellent HUGO video tutorial on Youtube, which is also mentioned throughout the official HUGO documentation.