1. Hugo is a static site generator that builds websites via the command line without a GUI. 2. Hugo is fast at compiling pages, taking around 25 milliseconds, and is used to turn structured content from a CMS into HTML. 3. While Hugo is good for performance, its documentation and templates can be inconsistent, rigid, and repetitive, making it difficult to do more complex designs. Developers iterated to play to Hugo's strengths and use it only for final compilation.

1. Who the heck is ?

2. Hugo is a static site generator
tl;dl

3. > Install & use Hugo
> via the command line
> There’s no GUI :-(

4. CONTENT
ASSETS
LAYOUT WEBSITE!

5. Dynamic site Static site
Database
Website Website
HUGO

6. Performance
Static assets are super quick and super robust

7. How fast can Hugo compile a page?
Pretty darned fast actually…

8. 25ms*
* Milliseconds

9. We use Hugo at the end of our publishing
process to turn structured content into HTML.
Save your content in the CMS editor,
click publish & Hugo goes to work…

10. Initially a lot of the front end work was
to be done with Hugo.
But Hugo can be a frustrating beast…

11. Templating with Hugo

12. - Inconsistent documentation
- Rigid & inflexible templates
- Repetitious structure
- Reliance on Markdown
It was tricky to really do what we wanted…
So what’s wrong with Hugo?

13. The Dev & Design contingent
Tom Trentham
Tom Natt
Kelvin Gan
Phil Wilson
Liam McMurray
Dan Dineen

14. So, in the
we iterated...
Spirit of
Agile

15. We now play directly to its strengths &
simply use Hugo to compile the site at
the end of everything else…

16. > Oh, and Liam
> the -w flag at the end
> of the hugo server -w
> command tells Hugo to
> watch files and recompile
> the site if any files change