Usually takes several readings of the documentation to work out how to do things if it isn’t immediately obvious.

❌ Logic and flow can be complex to comprehend and reason about.

I built a new theme from scratch in less than a week of casual, out-of-hours writing.

✅ Relatively simple to generate new themes.

✅ Simple integration of data-driven outputs.

✅ Lots of automation hooks available such as multiple output types for generating alternative forms of data.

✅ Active and helpful online community, regular updates.

✅ Easily handles both page- and post-based sites and combinations of both.

✅ Supported by a number of free, cloud-based deployment and CMS tools such as Netlify and Forestry.IO.

✅ Executable has a development server built in.

✅ Being able to easily run the build locally means full access to any error messages.A single executable is everything required.Īlthough Hugo is based on GoLang, it is packaged into a single executable for those whoĭon’t want or need to mess with Go itself. ✅ Can use YAML configuration and Front Matter like Jekyll does.Hugo - By far the best I’ve found out of all possibilities.Īlthough I don’t know Go, with Hugo, I only need to know a few basics and I don’t need to install it.

Alternative to jekyll for windows user