Headless Hugo CMS

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I’m a developer, I really like Hugo’s way to help me manage my content with MD on-prem.

And I want to use my content in different way, not just browser, but also native app, smart device, etc.

Is there any plan in Hugo’s roadmap related to those approach?

Thanks

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Checked Hugo live road map, I assume there is no priority for Hugo headless CMS, let’s have a try to build it ourself.

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You can use the json output of Hugo to get your posts as a JSON object - just like you would from an API.

I believe enableing it like this in your config.toml (of your Hugo project):

[outputFormats.JSON]
mediaType = "application/json"
section = ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]
pages = ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]
home =  ["HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]

See this article or Hugo Docs for more info.

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Thanks a lot, that’s really a great idea. I will following this way to read the source code. What I want to try is to make it as a backend server and support client like React/Vue/Svelte for SPA/PWA, which will need some details info, so that I can build HUGO content in other services.

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