Hugo vs VuePress

Hugo and VuePress are both open source static site generators. Hugo is written in Go and VuePress is written in JavaScript.

Property Hugo VuePress
Language Go JavaScript
Templates Go Vue
License Apache-2.0 MIT

Hugo benefits

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website.

Hugo makes use of Markdown files with front matter for meta data.

A typical website of moderate size can be rendered in a fraction of a second. A good rule of thumb is that Hugo takes around 1 millisecond for each piece of content.

It is written to work well with any kind of website including blogs, tumbles and docs.

VuePress benefits

Simplicity First

Minimal setup with markdown-centered project structure helps you focus on writing.

Vue-Powered

Enjoy the dev experience of Vue + webpack, use Vue components in markdown, and develop custom themes with Vue.

Performant

VuePress generates pre-rendered static HTML for each page, and runs as an SPA once a page is loaded.

As Easy as 1, 2, 3

# install
npm install -g vuepress

# create a markdown file
echo "# Hello VuePress" > README.md

# start writing
vuepress dev

# build to static files
vuepress build