Hugo

Written in Go, Hugo is an open source static site generator available under the Apache Licence 2.0. Hugo supports TOML, YAML and JSON data file types, Markdown and HTML content files and uses shortcodes to add rich content. Other notable features are taxonomies, multilingual mode, image processing, custom output formats, HTML/CSS/JS minification and support for Sass SCSS workflows.

Hugo makes use of a variety of open source projects including:

• https://github.com/yuin/goldmark
• https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma
• https://github.com/muesli/smartcrop
• https://github.com/spf13/cobra
• https://github.com/spf13/viper

Hugo is ideal for blogs, corporate websites, creative portfolios, online magazines, single page applications or even a website with thousands of pages.

Hugo is for people who want to hand code their own website without worrying about setting up complicated runtimes, dependencies and databases.

Websites built with Hugo are extremelly fast, secure and can be deployed anywhere including, AWS, GitHub Pages, Heroku, Netlify and any other hosting provider.

Learn more and contribute on GitHub.

Using Links in hugo

To use this feature, add links section to frontmatter.

Example page’s frontmatter:

links:
  - title: GitHub
    description: GitHub is the world's largest software development platform.
    website: https://github.com
    image: /assets/github_githubassets_com/images/modules/logos_page/GitHub-Mark.png
  - title: TypeScript
    description: TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
    website: https://www.typescriptlang.org
    image: ts-logo-128.jpg

image field accepts both local and external images.