Developing Your Site Locally
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Developing Your Site Locally
Whenever you’re working on your site content, Hugo can serve your site locally with hot reload capability, so you can see your changes reflected in the browser as you make them.
To do this:
- Change directory into your Hugo site folder in a terminal window and enter
hugo server. - Hugo builds and serves your site on a special localhost port.
- As you save changes, Hugo automatically rebuilds and refreshes the site in your browser.
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Last updated Mon Mar 2 2026