Given this comment from Hugo Server for Production:
My mind’s been going a bit (too?) wild. I hadn’t previously thought of Hugo being used for production on the server… I suppose simply because I’d always thought of it as a (mere) static site generator). Using it for production, even if it’s a separate “product” of sorts (as you say here, @bjornerik), opens up the use of Hugo to server-side scripting (however basic or advanced one might want to make it). Is this correct? And if so, are there any folks doing this who’d care to share some use-cases/code?
Recently I’ve begun diving into Statamic which has a seemingly simple yet surprisingly powerful feature: Creating site-user content via form submissions (via their form add-on, Raven).
Why can’t we do the same with Hugo?
Feature Idea/Request: Allow users of a Hugo site to create content from a site’s front-end via forms, writing the content to a file.
And for the curious, I’m becoming a bit fixed on this idea of trying to find something between a purely static site generator/flat-file-cms and full-blown database (yikes!) solution for web “apps/sites/whatever-it-is-we-want/need-to-create-these-days”. This lead me to this post on Statamic’s blog, Using Statamic for Web Apps. Naturally, I’m not really happy with a PHP solution… why not build the features for such in Hugo?
Related and helpful threads here on the Hugo Formum:
PS: Combining the above proposed feature with a basic user feature (front-end user accounts) and running Hugo in watch mode on a production server seems like it could do some pretty powerful stuff.
PPS: If I was a Gopher (working on it, but not there yet) I’d be writing code right now instead of this post. Just sayin’. I might still start (trying) to write some Go code related to this, but seems a better use of my time to try and get others (with actual Go-chops) excited about the potential of such features.