Hugo documentation theme as simple as plain book
Fork of the original Book theme by alex-shpak, which was released under the MIT license. The code in this fork is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 (LGPL-3.0-or-later).
You can find an example here: https://github.com/pasabanov/hugo-book-example.
- Clean simple design
- Light and Mobile-Friendly
- Multi-language support
- Customisable
- Zero initial configuration
- Handy shortcodes
- Comments support
- Simple blog and taxonomy
- Primary features work without JavaScript
- Dark Mode
- Hugo 0.134 or higher
- Hugo extended version, Installation Instructions
Navigate to your hugo project root and run:
git submodule add --depth 1 https://github.com/pasabanov/hugo-book themes/hugo-book
Then run hugo (or set theme = "hugo-book"/theme: hugo-book in configuration file)
hugo server --minify --theme hugo-book
You can also add this theme as a Hugo module instead of a git submodule.
Start with initializing hugo modules, if not done yet:
hugo mod init github.com/repo/path
Navigate to your hugo project root and add [module] section to your hugo.toml:
[module]
[[module.imports]]
path = 'github.com/pasabanov/hugo-book'Then, to load/update the theme module and run hugo:
hugo mod get -u
hugo server --minifyYou can clone the example repository
By default, the theme will render pages from the content/docs section as a menu in a tree structure.
You can set title and weight in the front matter of pages to adjust the order and titles in the menu, as well as other parameters to hide or alter urls in the menu. You can choose which folder to use for generating menu with BookSection configuration parameter.
A simple blog is supported in the section posts.
A blog is not the primary usecase of this theme, so it has only minimal features.
There are a few configuration options that you can add to your hugo.toml file.
You can also see the yaml example here.
# (Optional) If you provide a Disqus shortname, comments will be enabled on
# all pages.
disqusShortname = "my-site"
# (Optional) Set this to true if you use capital letters in file names
disablePathToLower = true
# (Optional) Set this to true to enable 'Last Modified by' date and git author
# information on 'doc' type pages.
enableGitInfo = true
# (Optional) Theme is intended for documentation use, therefore it doesn't render taxonomy.
# You can remove related files with config below
disableKinds = ['taxonomy', 'taxonomyTerm']
[params]
# (Optional, default light) Sets color theme: light, dark or auto.
# Theme 'auto' switches between dark and light modes based on browser/os preferences
BookTheme = 'light'
# (Optional, default true) Controls table of contents visibility on right side of pages.
# Start and end levels can be controlled with markup.tableOfContents setting.
# You can also specify this parameter per page in front matter.
BookToC = true
# (Optional, default none) Set the path to a logo for the book. If the logo is
# /static/logo.png then the path would be 'logo.png'
BookLogo = 'logo.png'
# (Optional, default docs) Specify section of content to render as menu
# You can also set value to "*" to render all sections to menu
BookSection = 'docs'
# Set source repository location.
# Used for 'Last Modified' and 'Edit this page' links.
BookRepo = 'https://github.com/pasabanov/hugo-book-example'
# Specifies commit portion of the link to the page's last modified commit hash for 'doc' page
# type.
# Required if 'BookRepo' param is set.
# Value used to construct a URL consisting of BookRepo/BookCommitPath/<commit-hash>
# Github uses 'commit', Bitbucket uses 'commits'
BookCommitPath = 'commit'
# Enable 'Edit this page' links for 'doc' page type.
# Disabled by default. Uncomment to enable. Requires 'BookRepo' param.
# Path must point to the site directory.
BookEditPath = 'edit/main'
# (Optional, default January 2, 2006) Configure the date format used on the pages
# - In git information
# - In blog posts
BookDateFormat = 'Jan 2, 2006'
# (Optional, default true) Enables search function with flexsearch,
# Index is built on fly, therefore it might slowdown your website.
# Configuration for indexing can be adjusted in i18n folder per language.
BookSearch = true
# (Optional, default false) Enables KaTeX on every page.
# When enabled, formulas enclosed in `$...$`, `$$...$$`, `\(...\)` or `\[...\]`
# will be automatically rendered without requiring shortcodes `k` and `kk`.
BookGlobalKatex = false
# (Optional, default false) Enables comments template on pages
# By default partials/docs/comments.html includes Disqus template
# See https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/#configure-disqus
# Can be overwritten by same param in page frontmatter
BookComments = false
# /!\ This is an experimental feature, might be removed or changed at any time
# (Optional, experimental, default false) Enables portable links and link checks in markdown pages.
# Portable links meant to work with text editors and let you write markdown without {{< relref >}} shortcode
# Theme will print warning if page referenced in markdown does not exists.
BookPortableLinks = true
# /!\ This is an experimental feature, might be removed or changed at any time
# (Optional, experimental, default false) Enables service worker that caches visited pages and resources for offline use.
BookServiceWorker = trueTheme supports Hugo's multilingual mode, just follow configuration guide there. You can also tweak search indexing configuration per language in i18n folder.
You can specify additional params in the front matter of individual pages:
# Set type to 'docs' if you want to render page outside of configured section or if you render section other than 'docs'
type = 'docs'
# Set page weight to re-arrange items in file-tree menu.
weight = 10
# (Optional) Set to 'true' to mark page as flat section in file-tree menu.
bookFlatSection = false
# (Optional) Set to hide nested sections or pages at that level. Works only with file-tree menu mode
bookCollapseSection = true
# (Optional) Set true to hide page or section from side menu.
bookHidden = false
# (Optional) Set 'false' to hide ToC from page
bookToC = true
# (Optional) If you have not enabled BookComments for the site, you can enable it for specific pages.
bookComments = false
# (Optional) Set to 'false' to exclude page from search index.
bookSearchExclude = true
# (Optional) Set explicit href attribute for this page in a menu.
bookHref = ''There are layout partials available for you to easily override components of the theme in layouts/partials/.
In addition to this, there are several empty partials you can override to easily add/inject code.
| Empty Partial | Placement |
|---|---|
layouts/partials/docs/inject/head.html |
Before closing <head> tag |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/body.html |
Before closing <body> tag |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/footer.html |
After page footer content |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/menu-before.html |
At the beginning of <nav> menu block |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/menu-after.html |
At the end of <nav> menu block |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/content-before.html |
Before page content |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/content-after.html |
After page content |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/toc-before.html |
At the beginning of table of contents block |
layouts/partials/docs/inject/toc-after.html |
At the end of table of contents block |
| File | Description |
|---|---|
static/favicon.png |
Override default favicon |
assets/_custom.scss |
Customise or override scss styles |
assets/_variables.scss |
Override default SCSS variables |
assets/_fonts.scss |
Replace default font with custom fonts (e.g. local files or remote fonts) |
assets/mermaid.json |
Replace Mermaid initialization config |
There are a few features implemented as pluggable scss styles. Usually these are features that don't make it to the core but can still be useful.
| Plugin | Description |
|---|---|
assets/plugins/_numbered.scss |
Makes headings in markdown numbered, e.g. 1.1, 1.2 |
assets/plugins/_scrollbars.scss |
Overrides scrollbar styles to look similar across platforms |
To enable plugins, add @import "plugins/{name}"; to assets/_custom.scss in your website root.
There is a hugo template inserted in <head>
To disable Open Graph inclusion you can create your own empty file \layouts\_internal\opengraph.html.
In fact almost empty not quite empty because an empty file looks like absent for HUGO. For example:
<!-- -->
By default, Goldmark trims unsafe outputs which might prevent some shortcodes from rendering. It is recommended to set markup.goldmark.renderer.unsafe=true if you encounter problems.
[markup.goldmark.renderer]
unsafe = trueIf you are using config.yaml or config.json, consult the configuration markup
Contributions are welcome and I will review and consider pull requests.
Primary goals are:
- Keep it simple.
- Keep minimal (or zero) default configuration.
- Avoid interference with user-defined layouts.
- Avoid using JS if it can be solved by CSS.
Feel free to open issues if you find missing configuration or customisation options.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
© Alex Shpak, Contributors and Petr Alexandrovich Sabanov
This repository is a soft fork that tracks the original repository.
Last integrated commit: 7c78a39c531aa2492ed7e92f2ce9dfb2c8c0d3fa.
