I’m working on my theme , and I was wondering whether starting to use hugo modules for it or not. The theme works because it provides an example site to work with, but I feel like importing the theme as a hugo module without making you able to see the files could actually be more confusing than usin…

[image] ololiuhqui: importing the theme as a hugo module without making you able to see the files could actually be more confusing than using git submodules, especially if you wanna make changes to the theme itself. In the absence of additional instructions, I agree. But you could include som…

Hi thank you for the answer! So how would I make people work on my theme with git if I use this vendor strategy? Users can just get the theme automatically with the website with hugo modules, but what about developers? How can they work with git stuff and see live changes on the website? I feel l…

Developers will clone your theme repo. Neither git submodules or Hugo modules works for development.

Theme as a hugo module or theme as a git submodule?

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bep April 16, 2025, 1:00pm 5

I’m biased, but I would go Hugo Modules every day of the week. Only downside I see is that it requires Go installed.

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Theme as a hugo module or theme as a git submodule?

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