Hugo Theme Techdoc

The Techdoc is a Hugo Theme for technical documentation.

• Hugo Themes page: https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/hugo-theme-techdoc/
• Demo site: https://thingsym.github.io/hugo-theme-techdoc/
• Download: https://github.com/thingsym/hugo-theme-techdoc

Features

• Modern, Simple layout
• Responsive web design
• Documentation menu (Select Menu style)
• Table Of Contents for the page (selective)
• Theme color
• Edit link to documentation repository
• Header link to HTML headings
• Custom Shortcodes
  • Code highlight with clipboard
  • Alert panel
  • Button
• Search Shortcode powered by Algolia
• Open Graph
• Analytics with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager

Screenshot

Theme color

Menu style

Open Menu

Slide Menu

Edit link

Getting Started

Requirement

Hugo minimum version: 0.60.0

Default Markdown parser library Goldmark compatible

Install Hugo theme on your project as a git submodule

If you have git installed, you can include hugo-theme-techdoc repository into your core repository as submodule using git submodule within your project directory.

cd your_project
git submodule add https://github.com/thingsym/hugo-theme-techdoc.git themes/hugo-theme-techdoc

For more information read the Hugo documentation .

Or install Hugo theme on your project as a Hugo module

If you have Go installed, you can add hugo-theme-techdoc to your site as a Hugo module instead of a git submodule. Navigate to your Hugo project root and edit your hugo.toml:

[module]
[[module.imports]]
path = 'github.com/thingsym/hugo-theme-techdoc'

Then, to install/update the hugo-theme-techdoc module, run:

hugo mod get -u

Or download Hugo theme on your project

If you have git installed, you can do the following at the command-line-interface within your project directory.

cd your_project/themes
git clone https://github.com/thingsym/hugo-theme-techdoc.git

Configure

You may specify options in config.toml (or config.yaml/config.json) of your site to make use of this theme’s features.

For an example of config.toml, config.toml in exampleSite.

Update Hugo theme for git submodule

git submodule update --remote
git add themes/hugo-theme-techdoc
git commit

Directory layout

tree . -I node_modules

.
├── LICENSE.md
├── README.md
├── archetypes
│   └── default.md
├── docker-compose.yml
├── exampleSite
│   └── ..
├── gulpfile.js
├── images
│   └── ..
├── layouts
│   ├── 404.html
│   ├── blog
│   │   ├── li.html
│   │   ├── list.html
│   │   ├── single.html
│   │   └── summary.html
│   ├── _default
│   │   ├── baseof.html
│   │   ├── list.algolia.json
│   │   ├── list.html
│   │   └── single.html
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── partials
│   │   ├── content-footer.html
│   │   ├── custom-css.html
│   │   ├── custom-head.html
│   │   ├── edit-meta.html
│   │   ├── edit-page.html
│   │   ├── footer.html
│   │   ├── global-menu.html
│   │   ├── head.html
│   │   ├── last-updated.html
│   │   ├── menu
│   │   │   ├── open-menu.html
│   │   │   └── slide-menu.html
│   │   ├── meta
│   │   │   ├── chroma.html
│   │   │   ├── google-analytics-async.html
│   │   │   ├── google-site-verification.html
│   │   │   └── tag-manager.html
│   │   ├── notification.html
│   │   ├── pagination.html
│   │   ├── powered.html
│   │   ├── prepend-body.html
│   │   ├── search.html
│   │   ├── sidebar-footer.html
│   │   ├── sidebar.html
│   │   ├── site-header.html
│   │   └── table-of-contents.html
│   ├── posts
│   │   ├── list.html
│   │   └── single.html
│   ├── shortcodes
│       ├── button.html
│       ├── code.html
│       ├── panel.html
│       └── search.html
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── resources
├── src
│   ├── js
│   │   ├── code.js
│   │   ├── headerlink.js
│   │   ├── jquery.backtothetop
│   │   │   ├── jquery.backtothetop.js
│   │   │   └── jquery.backtothetop.min.js
│   │   ├── keydown-nav.js
│   │   ├── main.js
│   │   └── sidebar-menu.js
│   └── scss
│       ├── _component.scss
│       ├── _project.scss
│       ├── _structure.scss
│       ├── _variable.scss
│       ├── chroma.scss
│       ├── foundation
│       │   ├── _element.scss
│       │   ├── _index.scss
│       │   ├── _normalize.scss
│       │   ├── _reset.scss
│       │   └── _stack.scss
│       ├── function
│       │   ├── _calc-font-size.scss
│       │   ├── _calc-stack.scss
│       │   ├── _contrast-color.scss
│       │   ├── _index.scss
│       │   └── _strip-unit.scss
│       └── theme.scss
├── static
│   ├── css
│   │   ├── chroma.css
│   │   ├── chroma.min.css
│   │   ├── theme.css
│   │   └── theme.min.css
│   ├── images
│   └── js
│       └── bundle.js
├── theme.toml
└── webpack.config.js

Preview site

To preview your site, run Hugo’s built-in local server.

hugo server -t hugo-theme-techdoc

Browse site on http://localhost:1313

Deploy Site to public_html directory

hugo -t hugo-theme-techdoc -d public_html

Local development environment

Preview exampleSite

cd /path/to/dir/themes/hugo-theme-techdoc/exampleSite

hugo server --themesDir ../..

Browse site on http://localhost:1313

Build development

cd /path/to/hugo-theme-techdoc
npm install
npm run gulp watch

Docker development environment

Run Docker and Preview exampleSite

cd /path/to/hugo-theme-techdoc
docker-compose up -d

Browse site on http://localhost:1313

Build development

cd /path/to/hugo-theme-techdoc
docker-compose run --rm node npm install
docker-compose run --rm node npm run watch

Contribution

Patches and Bug Fixes

Small patches and bug reports can be submitted a issue tracker in Github. Forking on Github is another good way. You can send a pull request.

1. Fork Hugo Theme Techdoc from GitHub repository
2. Create a feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am ‘Add some feature’
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Create new Pull Request

Changelog

• Version 1.0.0 - 2022.08.21
  • update hugo docker image
  • update npm dependencies
  • allow to set branch of github documentation repository [#64]
  • enable use as a Hugo module [#63]
• Version 0.9.9 - 2022.07.08
  • fix scss
  • bump up version on jquery, jquery.easing and clipboard
  • update node package dependencies
  • change service name
  • change fontawesome delivery from cdn to self-host
  • fix config.toml
  • id and class elements added to menu items
  • pre and post elements added to menu items [#48]
  • use SRI for CDN js sources [#45]
  • fix heading styles
  • change to using math.div for division
• Version 0.9.8 - 2021.10.18
  • fix sample document
  • edit README
  • update package.json
  • add github_doc_repository_path
  • change to relative link
  • add workflows for publishing demo site to gh-pages
• Version 0.9.7 - 2021.03.08
  • add docker-compose.yml for development environment
  • change keyboard event from event.keyCode to event.key because it is deprecated
  • update package.json
  • add FUNDING.yml
  • fix space for minify publish
  • change flexbox-grid-mixins from libsass to dart-sass
• Version 0.9.6 - 2020.11.22
  • add sample Markdown Syntax
  • update sample document
  • replace scss from node-sass to dart-sass
• Version 0.9.5 - 2020.11.05
  • fix link style with Alert panel
• Version 0.9.4 - 2020.10.08
  • improve scss for custom shortcodes using css custom properties
  • change stack to css custom properties
  • fix scss
  • fix button shortcode, adding notice color
  • add Code highlight with clipboard custom shortcode
  • fix webpack.config.js
  • fix npm scripts
  • update package.json
  • adjust no sidebar layout
• Version 0.9.3 - 2020.08.02
  • remove jQuery dependency with keydown nav
  • add header link
• Version 0.9.2 - 2020.06.14
  • add note and sample to document
  • fix tableOfContents endLevel
  • add chapter ‘unlimited levels’ to document
  • add menu indentation up to 5 levels
• Version 0.9.1 - 2020.05.24
  • fix config.toml
  • fix url in rss meta link
  • remove line break in algolia.json
• Version 0.9.0 - 2020.04.01
  • fix lint config
  • update Sample Document
  • update jQuery to v3.4.1
  • add search function and shortcode powered by Algolia
  • fix config.toml
  • fix sass
  • fix hugo deprecated warning
• Version 0.8.3 - 2020.03.19
  • fix edit page link
• Version 0.8.2 - 2020.03.07
  • fix open graph image path
• Version 0.8.1 - 2020.03.07
  • fix open graph image path
• Version 0.8.0 - 2020.02.27
  • update Sample Document
  • config.toml
  • add open graph image to exampleSite
  • add safeCSS for ZgotmplZ with generated by Hugo Template
• Version 0.7.0 - 2020.02.07
  • bump up Hugo minimum version to 0.60.0
  • change shortcode delimiter from % to <
  • improve tableOfContents for Goldmark
• Version 0.6.0 - 2020.01.13
  • fix scss
  • gulp bump up version to 4.0
  • fix hugo deprecated warning
• Version 0.5.0 - 2019.12.08
  • update Sample Document
  • add table of contents
  • add open graph
  • add function and stack scss
• Version 0.4.0 - 2019.11.02
  • update Sample Document
  • add Theme color
  • add Menu style
  • improve scss
• Version 0.3.0 - 2019.10.06
  • fix archetypes
  • add prepend-body.html for Tag Manager noscript version
  • change class name from menu to global-menu
  • rename partials files
  • fix javascript path for webpack
  • improve development environment
  • move javascript files to src directory
• Version 0.2.2 - 2019.04.27
  • fix Lastmod’s and PublishDate’s initial value of 0001-01-01
• Version 0.2.1 - 2018.12.07
  • fix scss lint errors
  • change lint from scss-lint to stylelint
  • add published date
  • change the font color of powered by
  • fix link on powered by
• Version 0.2.0 - 2018.11.21
  • add screenshot images
  • add exampleSite
  • fix sub-menu for responsive
  • improve menu and pagination
• Version 0.1.0 - 2018.03.04
  • initial release

License

Techdoc is licensed under the MIT License.

Techdoc bundles the following third-party resources:

• CSS reset by normalize.css , MIT
• jQuery Plugin Back to the Top , MIT
• Sass Mixin Flexbox Grid Mixins , MIT
• jQuery
• jQuery Easing
• Font Awesome
• clipboard.js
• algoliasearch
• Day.js

Author

thingsym

Copyright (c) 2017-2020 by thingsym

See also

• Ace documentation
• Amethyst
• DocuAPI
• HB Starter Theme Template
• Hugo NexT