Generating a Site for Documentation

Have you been looking for an easy way to generate a site for documentation? Where you don't have to do all the web foundation work to make it look and work great. I found Hugo to be an awesome tool to do just that. 

What is Hugo?

"Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again."

Demo

• https://example.docsy.dev

Features

• Really fast build times
• Multi-language support, multilingual and i18n
• Markdown support with shortcodes
• Flexible content management system (CMS)
• Hundreds of themes to choose from
• More...

Generate and Run a Docsy Site

1. Install

• First install Hugo, follow the Hugo installation guide.

2. Download

Download the Docsy example. Git is used to download the example.

git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 https://github.com/google/docsy-example.git

3. Run the Web Server

    
cd docsy-example
hugo server 
    
    

4. Load the Docsy Site

The link will be in the output and will look like http://localhost:1313. 

Hugo

Find out more about what Hugo can do for your site.