Minimum Viable Hugo – No CSS, no JavaScript, 1 static HTML page to start you off

1. minimum-viable-hugo

   1 12 194 4.4

   No CSS, no JS. One static HTML page to start you off.

   

2. CodeRabbit

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3. utilitarianism.net

   2 8 11 8.1 HTML

   Official repository for utilitarianism.net

   

   I've been loving Hugo. I built https://utilitarianism.net/ with it https://github.com/whyboris/utilitarianism.net

   For my personal and dev sites I used to use Gatsby, but migrated to Hugo just this month: https://github.com/whyboris/homepage & https://github.com/whyboris/homepage-dev

   I'm pleased with how little boilerplate Hugo actually needs. My personal websites have so few files to maintain / worry over :)

4. homepage

   3 2 0 2.4 HTML

   Homepage for yboris.com built with Hugo (by whyboris)

   

   I've been loving Hugo. I built https://utilitarianism.net/ with it https://github.com/whyboris/utilitarianism.net

   For my personal and dev sites I used to use Gatsby, but migrated to Hugo just this month: https://github.com/whyboris/homepage & https://github.com/whyboris/homepage-dev

   I'm pleased with how little boilerplate Hugo actually needs. My personal websites have so few files to maintain / worry over :)

5. homepage-dev

   4 1 0 3.6 HTML

   Homepage for yboris.dev built with Hugo

   

   I've been loving Hugo. I built https://utilitarianism.net/ with it https://github.com/whyboris/utilitarianism.net

   For my personal and dev sites I used to use Gatsby, but migrated to Hugo just this month: https://github.com/whyboris/homepage & https://github.com/whyboris/homepage-dev

   I'm pleased with how little boilerplate Hugo actually needs. My personal websites have so few files to maintain / worry over :)

6. evansosenko.com

   5 1 3 6.0 HTML

   Personal website for Evan Sosenko.

   

   Since we're sharing, here is my personal site in Hugo without using any starter templates or themes.

   https://github.com/evansosenko/evansosenko.com

   Going back to basics and having zero external dependencies is quite enjoyable. Understanding how Hugo templates, themes, and content all work together was more complicated than I originally expected, but they have build a good system. Hopefully this helps anyone looking to get started.

7. Hugo

   6 581 78,794 9.8 Go

   The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

   

   Hugo is not made for minimum viable blogs. Its advantage in performance only becomes important for bigger websites or blogs with thousands of articles. But especially for bigger websites it should be possible to auto-generate a good archive. However the developers of Hugo stubbornly refuse to fix this very important 8 year old issue: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/448

8. cobalt.rs

   7 8 1,449 8.9 Rust

   Static site generator written in Rust

   

   Cobalt is nice if you want simple: https://cobalt-org.github.io/

   It's not python, but it is a single binary to be off and running.

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10. muxup-site

    8 8 9 8.8 Python

    Content, generator scripts, and produced artifacts for https://muxup.com

    

    I've also found that a custom-written generator is surprisingly productive. My own attempt is at https://github.com/muxup/muxup-site/blob/main/build.py and I wrote up a few notes on it here https://muxup.com/2022q3/muxup-implementation-notes#site-gen....

11. Lektor

    9 21 3,874 6.6 Python

    The lektor static file content management system

    

    Lektor is Python based and Just Works, but it is far off the beaten track… https://www.getlektor.com/

12. obsidian-releases

    10 1,697 10,979 9.9 JavaScript

    Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

    

13. sphinx

    11 33 6,929 9.9 Python

    The Sphinx documentation generator

    

    I like Sphinx [0] with the MyST Markdown syntax [1]. There is a related project, Myst NB [2], which enables including Jupyter notebooks in your site. There is also a plugin for blogging [3].

    [0]: https://www.sphinx-doc.org

14. MyST-Parser

    12 5 792 7.1 Python

    An extended commonmark compliant parser, with bridges to docutils/sphinx

    

15. decap-cms

    13 90 18,216 8.2 JavaScript

    A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators

    

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