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authorBjørn Erik Pedersen <bjorn.erik.pedersen@gmail.com>2018-05-04 09:44:59 +0200
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+title: Forestry.io
+date: 2018-03-16
+description: "Showcase: \"Seeing Hugo in action is a whole different world of awesome.\""
+siteURL: https://forestry.io/
+siteSource: https://github.com/forestryio/forestry.io
+---
+
+It was clear from the get-go that we had to go with a static site generator. Static sites are secure, performant, and give you 100% flexibility. At [Forestry.io](https://forestry.io/) we provide Content Management Solutions for websites built with static site generators, so we might be a little biased. The only question: Which static site generator was the right choice for us?
+
+### Why Hugo?
+
+In our early research we looked at Ionic’s [site](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic) to get some inspiration. They used Jekyll to build their website. While Jekyll is a great generator, the build times for larger sites can be painfully slow. With more than 150 pages plus many custom configurations and add-ons, our website doesn’t fall into the low-volume category anymore. Our developers want a smooth experience when working on the website and our content editors need the ability to preview content quickly. In short, we need our builds to be lightning fast.
+
+We knew Hugo was fast but we did [some additional benchmarking](https://forestry.io/blog/hugo-vs-jekyll-benchmark/) before making our decision. Seeing Hugo in action is a whole different world of awesome. Hugo takes less than one second to build our 150-page site! Take a look:
+
+```bash
+ | EN
++------------------+-----+
+ Pages | 141
+ Paginator pages | 4
+ Non-page files | 0
+ Static files | 537
+ Processed images | 0
+ Aliases | 60
+ Sitemaps | 1
+ Cleaned | 0
+
+Total in 739 ms
+```
+
+In fact, we liked Hugo so much that our wizard Chris made his workflow public and we started the open-source project [Create-Static-Site](https://github.com/forestryio/create-static-site). It's [a simple way to spin up sites](https://forestry.io/blog/up-and-running-with-hugo/) and set up a modern web development workflow with one line of code. Essentially it adds build configurations as a dependency for JS, CSS and Image Processing.
+
+Lastly, we want to take the opportunity to give some love to other amazing tools we used building our website.
+
+### What tools did we use?
+
+* Our Norwegian designer Nichlas is in love with [**Sketch**](https://www.sketchapp.com/). From what we hear it’s a designer’s dream come true.
+* Some say our main graphic is [mesmerizing](https://twitter.com/hmncllctv/status/968907474664284160). Nichlas created it using [**3DS Max**](https://www.autodesk.com/products/3ds-max/overview).
+* [**Hugo**](https://gohugo.io/) -- of course.
+* Chris can’t think of modern web development without [**Gulp**](https://gulpjs.com/) & [**Webpack**](https://webpack.js.org/). We used them to add additional build steps such as Browsersync, CSS, JS and SVG optimization.
+* Speaking about adding steps to our build, our lives would be much harder without [**CircleCI**](https://circleci.com/) for continuous deployment and automated testing purposes.
+* We can’t stop raving about [**Algolia**](https://www.algolia.com/). Chris loves it and even wrote a tutorial on [how to implement Algolia](https://forestry.io/blog/search-with-algolia-in-hugo/) into static sites using Hugo’s [Custom Outputs](https://gohugo.io/templates/output-formats/).
+* [**Cloudinary**](https://cloudinary.com/) is probably one of the easiest ways to get responsive images into your website.
+* We might be a little biased on this one - We think [**Forestry.io**](https://forestry.io/) is a great way to add a content management system with a clean UI on top of your site without interrupting your experience as a developer.
+* For hosting purposes we use the almighty [**AWS**](https://aws.amazon.com/).
+* [**Formspree.io**](https://formspree.io/) is managing our support and enterprise requests.
+* We also use browser cookies and JS to customize our user’s experience and give it a more dynamic feel. \ No newline at end of file