From the course: Learning Static Site Building with Hugo

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Why Hugo?

Why Hugo?

From the course: Learning Static Site Building with Hugo

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Why Hugo?

- [Instructor] I'm a big fan of Hugo for a couple of reasons. First it's really light weight and it's easy to install. On Windows it's just a single exe file to download and on Mac you can install it via Homebrew. Hugo is also super fast. Even for large sites with hundreds or even thousands of pages, Hugo can rebuild the site in less then a second. It's usually so fast that you don't even have time to reach for the mouse before it's ready to go. Like many other static site generators Hugo has pre-built visual themes, support for the markdown language, and advanced customization features. All right now that we've covered the advantages of static sites and we've picked Hugo as our tool of choice let's start building a website.

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