Book Review

Learn Hugo With Build Websites With Hugo

I have been building sites with Hugo for years. I wrote my own theme, tuned my build pipeline, and deployed more static sites than I can count. But I rarely see a resource that captures the why behind Hugo as well as the how. Brian P. Hogan’s Build Websites With Hugo does exactly that.

Published by Pragmatic Bookshelf in 2020, this 154-page book is not a reference manual. It is a guided tour through building a real portfolio site from scratch. You install Hugo, create a theme, add projects and a blog, wire up data sources, and deploy the final result — all while learning Hugo’s mental model.