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Hugo vs Jekyll: an epic battle of static site generator themes

Victoria Drake on April 27, 2020

I recently took on the task of creating a documentation site theme for two projects. Both projects needed the same basic features, but one uses Jek...
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Niko Heikkilä

Great post! I've also been working with Hugo to setup documentation pages. Especially I like the way you can add themes as Git submodules to the project and not have to add Gemfiles or Node modules to the project.

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Olivier Jacques

Thanks for sharing - great post!
IMHO, nothing beats Hugo’s-everything-in-one-executable. When you have multiple site authors, having everyone to install jekyll/ruby is just too difficult (especially for windows tech writers).
For tech docs, I moved everything to mkdocs

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Matthieu Cneude

Nice work! I love using Hugo for documentation websites (and blog, and everything which can be static). I keep your theme in my bookmarks for sure. Simple and elegant, I like it!

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Baskarrao Dandlamudi

Also Eleventy would be a nice option as well. 11ty.dev/

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Bijay Kumar Pun

Everyone is talking about Hugo, meanwhile I just started Jekyll today. Haha. But thanks for the article, was pretty helpful.
Will continue to use Jekyll though!
Cheers.

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Matt Curcio

LOVE HUGO! :))
Great detail on this post. I have not tried Jekyll (yet) but it looks good too. It has some slightly different templates that look cool.
Thank you!