# Hugo

Learn how to deploy Hugo apps with Hatchbox

Hugo is a static site builder that is written in Go.

When Hatchbox detects `hugo.toml` in your repository, it will run the build steps for Hugo.

Hatchbox will:

1. Download the latest version of Hugo
2. Check out git submodules
3. Build the site with:

```
bin/hugo --gc --minify
```

Hugo output the site to the `public` directory which will be served by Caddy.