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0 pointspknopf7y ago0 comments

I did. IMO, Hugo is the closest of any static gen to hitting the sweet spot of simplicity and feature set.

However, there were some features that I simply could not add to it. Features that if I didn't have the tooling bogging me down, I could implement in 10 minutes.

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/3659

I can't fault Hugo for that GH issue though. The author's response is valid.

I know I sound grumpy. Hugo is great. It is a far better option than Gatsby. The features that it has are very simple and straightforward (no graph nodes/graphql/webpack-esque abstractions). I actually highly recommend Hugo.

edit: To add onto my original comment, I encourage people to read this blog post.

http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

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annywhey7y ago

I took the approach of bolting a second compiler on top of Hugo(a custom Python script) to get the extra things I wanted in Hugo.

It still took a while, but I did get to leverage the parts of Hugo that already work well.

I don't think there's much in the way of winning either way, since now I have a Build Process.

pknopfOP7y ago

But it's your compiler, that does exactly what you want.

;)

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