Hugo is well known for building pages! But do you know it’s also great at structuring and manipulation data? In this final article we level up to achieve advanced data transformations!

Hugo is well known for building pages! But do you know it’s also great at structuring and manipulation data? In this article we cover advanced data manipulation in Hugo with Slices and Maps! We learn to fitler their content and shape up their structure while reviewing some critical functions and Hugo concept.

This article simply addresses the basics of the Go Template, along with some critical functions Hugo offers to complement it. If you’re starting your Hugo journey, or simply feel like several concepts remain obscure to you after years of Hugo, read on!

Back in July 2019 Hugo 0.56.0 introduced a powerful Module system. Pretty much like any package solution it allowed any Hugo project defined as a Module, be it a full website or a theme or a component to use any files stored on a repository somewhere and mount it as its own. It also enabled any Hugo project to become a full fledge Hugo Modules with its own config and dependencies which any other project could mount.