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Introducing Stargazer Layout: A Minimal & Elegant Hugo Theme

Introduction

πŸš€ Meet Stargazer Layout: A Minimal & Elegant Hugo Theme

Are you looking for a lightweight, responsive, and elegant theme for your Hugo-powered website? Stargazer Layout is here to help you build a beautiful blog, portfolio, or documentation site with ease!

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TLDR

Demo: https://blackstareye.github.io/stargazer-layout/
Link to Repo: https://github.com/Blackstareye/stargazer-layout
Link to Kofi for support: https://ko-fi.com/black_eye

Quick Start

First you have to install Hugo

then you can run this code in your shell after you switched to your project folder:

hugo new site my-site
cd my-site
echo "theme=[\"stargazer-layout\"]" >> hugo.toml
git clone https://github.com/Blackstareye/stargazer-layout themes/stargazer-layout
cd themes/stargazer-layout
npm install
cd ../..
hugo serve
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What is Hugo ?

GoHugo is a static website generator framework, which helps you to create blazing fast website with good SEO and security by design.

The output of a website generator contains only js, html and css files which makes the deployment easy and nearly everywhere possible.

What is a Hugo Theme

A hugo theme is a component for gohugo which dictates the structure, layout and style for a website. It also enables devs to add features to the gohugo website.

Meet my Theme Stargazer

Stargazer Layout is a hugo theme module that uses beer css for styling and supports node_modules and importmaps. It offers features like minification, fingerprinting, and custom JS/CSS integration.

It's a theme that gives you a material-3 based designed blog as a default starting point.

Why I developed Stargazer Layout

I love the design choices of material 3. I think it gives a clean look and gives a website a modern look within a responsive design.
I also wanted a starting point for my business oriented theme stargazer. This Theme should be able to use node_modules, vue-applications and also able to be easy adaptable for new code injections. So I thought that a blog based theme template which includes those features is a good starting point. More over, I really love goHugo and open source projects, thus I wanted to give something back. This is my way to do it. :)

Support

If you want to support my dev works you can do that through
Ko-Fi

Sidenote:
It works great together with my other (paid) theme stargazer, which is currently in development.

✨ Features

  • πŸŒ™ Minimalist Design – Clean and distraction-free layout

  • ⚑ Fast & Lightweight – Optimized for performance

  • πŸ“± Responsive – Looks great on all devices

  • 🎨 Customizable – Easy to tweak colors and styles

  • πŸ“– Markdown Support – Write effortlessly with Hugo's Markdown

  • 🏷️ Tags & Categories – Organize your content better

  • πŸ” SEO-Optimized – Meta tags and structured data for better ranking

  • πŸ“‚ Content Sections – Create blogs, portfolios, or documentation

  • 🌍 Multilingual Support – Reach a global audience

🌟 Why Choose Stargazer Layout?

If you want a fast, SEO-friendly, and beautifully simple Hugo theme, Stargazer Layout is the perfect choice. Whether you're a developer, writer, or creative, this theme helps you focus on what mattersβ€”your content.

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You can inject your own js, css snippets with ease. Also it is possible to use node_modules and even vue applications because of the import map module.

More Information

You can find more Information about stargazer in the README of the repo.

πŸ’¬ Feedback & Contributions

I’d love to hear your feedback! Feel free to open issues, suggest features, or contribute via PRs on GitHub.

πŸš€ Try Stargazer Layout today and elevate your Hugo site!

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Blackeye

This is my first dev post here. So feedback is really welcome and appreciated o//o