Wrapping Up

As you’ve seen in this chapter, there are many ways to deploy your Hugo site to production, and the method you choose depends on your specific situation. Deploying to Netlify is a great way to get a personal site online quickly, while deploying to your own web server might be the only option you have for your company docs site.

You’ve used Hugo to build a small, but feature-packed personal site. You’ve created your own theme from scratch; added content sections; served your content as JSON and RSS; consumed data from other sources; built a blog with comments; managed images, CSS, and scripts; added a search feature; and explored several ways to deploy your Hugo site to production and share it with the world. With this foundation, you’re ready to explore the various other features Hugo provides.

Hugo is an open source project under active development. As you learn more, consider joining the community. Ask and answer questions in the Hugo Community,^[57] build a theme and share it on the Hugo Themes site,^[58] or contribute directly to the project itself with bug reports, documentation updates, or pull requests that fix outstanding issues.