Is there any book, MOOC or comprehensive tutorial for Hugo ? Far too many tutorials are content simply by showing how to create a new site, apply a theme, change the title or whatever and then say “good luck, that’s it !”. The equivalent of showing a hello world program and tells you to peruse the …

Difficult to say. There are many things I need to find out myself and so far I think I’m getting the picture. One question however I have asked myself and did not find any answers that made it clear to me is how to build hiearchical static pages with appropriate navigation. E.g. with the hamburg the…

I think the first learning curve is around language / nomenclature. Hugo is fantastic for using accurate terms such as archetype and taxonomy - while laudable, they’re unusual for anyone coming to this with a background in front-end code (frameworks aside - HTML, CSS and Javascript don’t use these …

Indeed. Perhaps a quick start guide without a theme would be more appropriate as it would reveal more of how Hugo works internally.

I think by “comprehensive” it means starting from scratch. I myself as a beginner of Hugo find it frustrating to read the official hugo documentation, too. They’re just pieces of information all over the place. The dots are not linked to see the whole picture. Same goes to when you want to twerk con…

I think that we have to remember a few things, which might suggest possible areas of action: There is a difference between technical documentation (which is helpful once a dev knows a few things) and tutorials (a pedagogical tool learn) and guides (which might showcase special use cases, design p…

[image] HenrySkup: is there a (needed) fundamental difference between templates , blocks , partials … Yes. These are different things.

@zwbetz Totally! :stuck_out_tongue: My question was a little more philosophical: if doing things again, would we build Hugo with those same elements with the same about of (or lack of) difference between them? Or would a fewer number of core components suffice (maybe with some additional functional…

I think my biggest issue with the documentation is that it appears to be written in a bottom-up direction. There’s massive amounts of detail at all points, with no good overview (and the “Overview” pages are tables of contents, not overviews). What I’d like, and what’s missing here as in so many de…

I guess what I’m looking for at the very top level of the documentation is something like this (and forgive me if I get everything wrong here – I don’t have a good mental model because the docs are confusing me…) Hugo generates a website by taking articles in a directory structure (one per file), …

[image] darkling: a template applied to it, where the template provides a consistent page structure and content around the page content (e.g. formatting the title correctly, or putting the article date at the bottom). Nicely written, especially when you compare it to the current documentation…

Comprehensive hugo tutorial for beginners?

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