Looking for Inspiration: Advanced Projects You’ve Built with GoHugo?

Hi friends!

Could you share your experience of building more advanced projects with GoHugo? Not just boring blogs/static sites.

I understand that Hugo is technically a static site generator. But Hugo comes with extensive built-in functions and methods. And on the backend, you can do a lot of stuff, like working with data files, remote resources, APIs, or fetching data from external CMS/databases, etc.

You can’t build a server-side rendered app with Hugo, but still, it’s technically possible to build something more advanced than just a boring static blog/content site.

Do you have any examples in mind of advanced projects that have been built with GoHugo? By advanced, I mean:

  • eCommerce projects, where all the pages are static, but you fetch products from an external database/API or CMS (like headless Shopify?), and all frontend functionality runs on the client side or through headless prodiders (like Snipcart for shopping cards).
  • Listing websites, like real estate or job vacancies, where you build all the pages from external APIs.
  • etc.
    Can you show some sites with advanced functionality that were built with Hugo? And share your experience, please?
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This: https://www.bs-group-sa.com and https://careers.bs-group-sa.com. Vacancies from an external source. High stakes. Big company. Still… nothing special IMO. Just Hugo doing its thing.

This is a larger and beautiful website I created with HUGO: https://bienenkiste.de