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Add to SafariWhen comparing Hugo vs fasty, the Slant community recommends Hugo for most people. In the question“What is the fastest CMS for web content (news website with some static pages) ?” Hugo is ranked 1st while fasty is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Hugo is:
Code can be viewed [on GitHub](http://github.com/spf13/hugo).
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Pros
Pro Open-source and free
Code can be viewed on GitHub.
Pro Fast
Pro No dependencies
All other SSGs expect you to have a full toolchain setup for their language. Hugo is written in Go and distributed as an executable for unix, linux, windows and mac. Just download and run.
Pro Clean workflow
Create your new site, run the Hugo server, edit. Lather, rinse, repeat. Hugo stays out of the way.
Pro Flexible
Pro Good documentation
Pro Many themes available
Pro Draft mode
Allows you to see changes in real time.
Pro Single binary - cross platform
Pro Single source publishing
Can create PDFs, eBooks, RSS-Feeds, language and market specific Websites from single content folder.
Pro Great multipurpose development platform
We are using Hugo as the base-framework for a full blown knowledge management system, idea-management and inhouse brainstorming tool. Hugo source-code is well structures and comes with top components out of the box, that makes every solution built on this framework incredible fast and scalable accross platforms and corporate silos! Hugo - when being used as a framework is a game-changer that puts Sharepoint, Wordpress and Co. back to the shelf.
Pro Very active community
Pro Easy to add new content types, data files, and taxonomies
Pro It's flexible
You can add partials and link a partial to a specific dataset (e.g. an AQL request) so creating dynamic content is easy.
Pro Workflow
Work on a staging website and deploy on production (1 click)
Pro Blazing fast
it has a built-in cache.
Pro API Builder
You can manage your API directly within the admin UI. No need to deploy ... You just need to click on the publish button
Cons
Con No tutorial on how to create a theme from scratch
Con young project
the doc, the website is still not ready
Con It need Docker
If you know how to use docker it's very easy ... if not, it can be complicated.
