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A Hugo Survival Guide

A Hugo Survival Guide

Hugo is a static site generator: it takes some plain-text content, marries it to a bunch of HTML templates, and produces a set of complete, static HTML pages that can be served by any generic, stand-alone web server. Simple.

Or maybe not. Hugo does a lot of things automatically, relying on conventions and implicit rules, rather than on explicit configuration. For example, it tries to match each piece of content with the most