Install hugo with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository

Commands and aliases

• hugo

Project history

The gohugoio/hugo repository was created in July 2013, and GitHub Releases metadata records v0.7 on July 5, 2013. The README credits Hugo as built by Bjørn Erik Pedersen, Steve Francia, and contributors in Go, reflecting the project's evolution from a fast static site generator into a broader website framework with modules, asset processing, embedded development server behavior, and multiple build editions.

Hugo grew alongside the Markdown-and-Git static-site culture that valued local builds, reviewable content repositories, and deployment to static hosts. Its Go implementation and prebuilt binaries helped distinguish it from static site generators that required a language runtime and dependency tree on the target machine.

Adoption history

Hugo's adoption is visible across package-manager coverage and its own community infrastructure. The batch metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE, MacPorts, Nix, Chocolatey, Scoop, winget, and other package entries, while the official site recorded 88,799 GitHub stars as of June 30, 2026 and points users to a forum, themes directory, and documentation repository.

How it is used

Users run `hugo` to build static sites from content, templates, data, and assets, and `hugo server` during local development. Project configuration commonly lives in `hugo.toml`, `hugo.yaml`, `hugo.json`, or a `config/` directory, and sites often combine Markdown content, taxonomies, themes, image processing, Sass or Tailwind workflows, and Git-backed deployment.

Why package nerds care

For package nerds, Hugo is a flagship example of a cross-platform Go CLI that package managers distribute as a single developer tool with few runtime surprises. It also shows how package-manager installation, upstream binary releases, theme registries, and documentation tooling can reinforce one another for a content-heavy developer ecosystem.

Timeline

• 2013: gohugoio/hugo repository created and v0.7 release published.
• 2015: v0.15 release published during the project's early expansion.
• 2017: v0.20 release published as Hugo's release stream accelerated.
• 2026: Official site recorded 88,799 GitHub stars as of June 30, 2026.

Related projects

• Related projects include Go, Markdown, Hugo Modules, Hugo Themes, the Hugo documentation repository, static-site hosts, GitHub Pages-style workflows, Sass, Tailwind CSS, PostCSS, and other static site generators.

Sources

• Official Hugo site and documentation, repository README, GitHub repository and release metadata, and Homebrew package metadata supplied in the batch input.