Hugo
Hugo is a super fast static website generator developed with the programming language GO.
Overview
Hugo is a powerful tool that offers incredible speed to build website.
To have an idea of its power, Hugo can process a website with thousands of pages in seconds.
Companies like Smashing Magazine switched from the highly acclaimed WordPress to Hugo, given its ability to generate websites.
Hugo uses the Goldmark Markdown processor, which is fully compatible with the CommonMark specification, so the application Markdown support is excellent.
The processor used by Hugo, Goldmark, has a file called config.toml that allows you to configure the tool.
Here is an example of the configuration file:
baseURL = "http://meusite.org/"
languageCode = "en"
title = "My site"
theme = "ananke"
[markup]
taskLists = falseYou can visit the Hugo official website by clicking here.
See also the setup instructions and see which extensions are configurable in Goldmark.
Hugo Markdown Support
In Table 1.1 you have a list of Markdown elements compatible with Hugo.
| Element | Support | Information |
|---|---|---|
| Titles | Yes | |
| Paragraphs | Yes | |
| Line breaks | Yes | |
| Bold | Yes | |
| Italic | Yes | |
| Blockquote | Yes | |
| Ordered lists | Yes | |
| Unordered lists | Yes | |
| Code | Yes | |
| Horizontal lines | Yes | |
| Links | Yes | |
| Images | Yes | |
| Tables | Yes | |
| Fenced code blocks | Yes | Hugo allows you to highlight the syntax of the code block content based on the programming language. |
| Footnotes | Yes | |
| Title Id | Yes | |
| Definition lists | Yes | |
| Strikethrough | Yes | |
| Task lists | Yes | |
| Emoji (copy and paste) | Unknown | |
| Emoji (access codes) | Yes | |
| automatic URL Link | Yes | |
| Disable automatic link from URL | Yes | |
| HTML | Yes |