### Themes

## (Hu)go Template Primer

April 2, 2014
Development, Golang
Go, Golang, Templates, Themes, Development

Hugo uses the excellent Go html/template library for its template engine. It is an extremely lightweight engine that provides a very small amount of logic. In our experience that it is just the right amount of logic to be able to create a good static website. If you have used other template systems from different languages or frameworks you will find a lot of similarities in Go templates.

This document is a brief primer on using Go templates. The Go docs provide more details.

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