Hugo Book Theme

Hugo documentation theme as simple as plain book

• Features
• Installation
• Menu
• Configuration
• Shortcodes
• Contributing

Features

• Clean simple design
• Mobile friendly
• Customisable
• Designed to not interfere with other layouts
• Zero initial configuration
• Handy shortcodes

Requirements

• Hugo 0.48 or higher
• Hugo extended version, read more here

Installation

Navigate to your hugo project root and run:

git submodule add https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book themes/book

Then run hugo (or set theme = "book"/theme: book in configuration file)

hugo server --minify --theme book

Creating site from scratch

Below is example how to create new site from scratch

hugo new site mydocs; cd mydocs
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book themes/book
cp -R themes/book/exampleSite/content .

hugo server --minify --theme book

Menu

File tree menu (default)

By default theme will render pages from content/docs section as menu in a tree structure.
You can set title and weight in front matter of pages to adjust order and titles in menu.

Leaf bundle menu

You can also use leaf bundle and content of it's index.md as menu.
Given you have this file structure

├── content
│   ├── docs
│   │   ├── page-one.md
│   │   └── page-two.md
│   └── posts
│       ├── post-one.md
│       └── post-two.md

Create file content/docs/menu/index.md with content

+++
headless = true
+++

- [Book Example](/docs/)
  - [Page One](/docs/page-one)
  - [Page Two](/docs/page-two)
- [Blog](/posts)

And Enable it by settings BookMenuBundle: /menu in Site configuration

• Example menu
• Example config file
• Leaf bundles

Blog

Simple blog supported for section posts

Configuration

Site Configuration

There are few configuration options you can add to your config.toml file.
You can also see yaml example here.

# (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 6) Set how many table of contents levels to be showed on page.
# Use false to hide ToC, note that 0 will default to 6 (https://gohugo.io/functions/default/)
# You can also specify this parameter per page in front matter
BookToC = 3

# (Optional, default none) Set leaf bundle to render as side menu
# When not specified file structure and weights will be used
BookMenuBundle = '/menu'

# (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'

# (Optional) This value is duplicate of $link-color for making active link highlight in menu bundle mode
# BookMenuBundleActiveLinkColor = '\#004ed0'

# (Optional, default false) Include JS scripts in pages. Disabled by default.
# - Keep side menu on same scroll position during navigation
BookEnableJS = true

# Set source repository location.
# Used for 'Last Modified' and 'Edit this page' links.
BookRepo = 'https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book'

# Enable 'Edit this page' links for 'doc' page type.
# Disabled by default. Uncomment to enable. Requires 'BookRepo' param.
# Path must point to 'content' directory of repo.
BookEditPath = 'edit/master/exampleSite/content'

# (Optional, default January 2, 2006) Configure the date format used on the pages
# - In git information
# - In blog posts
BookDateFormat = 'Jan 2, 2006'

Page Configuration

You can specify additional params per page in front matter

# 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 (if BookMenuBundle not set)
weight = 10

# (Optional) Set to mark page as flat section in file-tree menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
bookFlatSection = true

# (Optional) Set true to hide page or section from side menu (if BookMenuBundle not set)
bookHidden = true

# (Optional) Set how many levels of ToC to show. use 'false' to hide ToC completely
bookToC = 3

Partials

There are few empty partials you can override in layouts/partials/

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 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

Extra Customisation

File	Description
static/favicon.png	Override default favicon
assets/_custom.scss	Customise or override scss styles
assets/_fonts.scss	Replace default font with custom fonts (e.g. local files or remote like google fonts)

Shortcodes

Expand

Provides clickable panel that show extra hidden content.

{{< expand >}}
## Markdown content
{{< /expand >}}

Tabs

Useful if you want to show alternative information per platform or setting.

{{< tabs "uniqueid" >}}
{{< tab "MacOS" >}} # MacOS Content {{< /tab >}}
{{< tab "Linux" >}} # Linux Content {{< /tab >}}
{{< tab "Windows" >}} # Windows Content {{< /tab >}}
{{< /tabs >}}

Multi column text

Organize text in 2 or more columns to use space efficiently.

{{< columns >}} <!-- begin columns block -->

# Left Content Lorem markdownum insigne...

<---> <!-- magic sparator, between columns -->

# Mid Content Lorem markdownum insigne...

<---> <!-- magic sparator, between columns -->

# Right Content Lorem markdownum insigne...
{{< /columns >}}

Mermaid Chat

Render various charts with mermaidjs

{{< mermaid >}}
sequenceDiagram
    Alice->>Bob: Hello Bob, how are you?
    alt is sick
        Bob->>Alice: Not so good :(
    else is well
        Bob->>Alice: Feeling fresh like a daisy
    end
    opt Extra response
        Bob->>Alice: Thanks for asking
    end
{{< /mermaid >}}

Contributing

Extra credits to contributors

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

Feel free to open issue if you missing some configuration or customisation option.