I was thinking this afternoon about Hugo and the (relatively) new year ahead. Since we get a bunch of new features every year we’re kind of spoiled. :slightly_smiling_face: But still I wonder, what will 2021 bring for Hugo? What kind of new features might be added to this already awesome static sit…

It will receive a perfectly structured and searchable documentation site. It will become faster. It will stay awesome.

[image] Jura: roadmap on GitHub Can’t find, URL please. Thanks.

There is no published roadmap. There are milestones set in the Hugo main repo. The current one is over here: v0.81 Milestone · GitHub However these tend to change and usually only a few of the issues are closed when a release is made. Then some issues are moved to the next milestone and some iss…

My very subjective observation is that many developers come (back) to Hugo – for a good reason: I settled on Hugo coming from Middleman because I disliked handling all of Middleman’s Ruby dependencies. The situation with all the JavaScript SSGs is not any better because you need to install thousand…

[image] alexandros: I did care for Pages from Data however Yupp, I am waiting for this, too :wink:

@Grob Absolutely — although I suspect forum long-timers are tired of me and my meanderings in and out of the Hugo-verse. :slight_smile: And I can’t say I blame them.

Forum longtimer here, but I agree with your article 100%. Already knew about npm dependency hell since 2016 and I’ve decided that this workflow does not suit me.

@alexandros Guess I had to learn the hard way. Thanks. (And you chose a different article than I did to note the left-pad SNAFU, but your choice was a better read.)

For my use cases, I hope 2021 will come with: pages from data defered template blocks Other nice features would be: pdf output format support for bibtex parsing / csl json conversion Note that both pdf outputs and bibtex conversion could be handled with better pandoc integration .

What will 2021 bring for Hugo?

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davidsneighbour February 7, 2021, 2:09pm 2

It will receive a perfectly structured and searchable documentation site.
It will become faster.
It will stay awesome.

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