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What is hugo?

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, built for creating sites such as blogs, documentation sites, image portfolios, landing pages and resumes. It takes content and templates and renders them into a complete site of static files. Its main language is Go, and it also includes asset pipelines for CSS, Sass, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS and images. Its code health is 6.8 out of 10 (Fair), ranked #138 of 4,000+ indexed repos. The last commit to hugo was on Aug 19, 2026, and 916 people have contributed.

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TypeApp
LicenseApache-2.0
Code health6.8 / 10 (Fair)
Health rank#138 of 4,000+ indexed repos
Last commitAug 19, 2026
Contributors916
Bus factor1
Size2,110 files, 240,153 lines

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gohugoio/hugo FAQ

What is hugo?

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is used to create sites such as blogs, documentation sites, image portfolios, landing pages and resumes. It renders content and templates into static files.

How does hugo work?

Hugo reads content and configuration, builds the pages in hugolib, and renders them with templates from the tpl directory. Its resources directory processes assets such as CSS, Sass, JavaScript and images. The embedded web server lets you preview changes while you develop.

What language is hugo written in?

Hugo is written in Go. The repository also contains JavaScript, shell scripts, C and Makefile files, with Go as the primary language.

How is the hugo code organized?

Hugo's code is grouped into modules such as docs, tpl, resources, hugolib, common, markup and internal. The hugolib/site.go file holds central site-building logic, and commands/server.go is an entry point for the development server.

Who is hugo for?

Hugo is for people who build corporate, government, nonprofit, education, news, event and project sites, as well as documentation sites, image portfolios, landing pages, blogs and resumes. It suits any of these uses that need a static site.

What license does hugo use?

Hugo uses the Apache-2.0 license. This license is identified as Apache-2.0 in the repository.

Code health

6.8out of 10Fair

Hotspots average 4.0, the place fixes pay off most.

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On the leaderboards:#15 of 26 Go repos

Key features of hugo

  • Renders a complete static site from content, templates and configuration.
  • Includes an embedded web server that shows changes to content, structure, behavior and presentation during development.
  • Provides asset pipelines for CSS, Sass, JavaScript and Tailwind CSS with bundling, minification and SRI hashing.
  • Processes images by converting, resizing, cropping, rotating, filtering and extracting metadata.
  • Supports multilingual sites, a taxonomy system and Hugo Modules for sharing content, themes and configuration through Git repositories.

How gohugoio/hugo works

Input enters through the command layer, where commands/server.go is an entry point that starts the embedded web server used during development. hugolib/site.go holds the central site-building code that reads content and configuration and assembles the pages. The tpl directory contains the templating system that turns those pages into HTML using templates. The resources directory handles asset processing, including image handling such as resources/images/config.go, which covers conversion and other image operations. The markup directory contains code for content markup formats, and the output of the build is the static site files.

The codebase has 2,110 files and 11,448 symbols in 38 modules, led by Go, JavaScript and Shell. Code health is 6.8 out of 10, rated fair.