Installing Third-Party Utilities
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Installing Third-Party Utilities
Before you can begin using jhDocs, you’ll need to install each of the following third-party utilities:
- Hugo
- Hugo is the static site generator that builds a documentation site from your markdown.
- Ensure that you are using at least version of version 0.149.1 of Hugo.
- Your work with Hugo will go smoother if you read through the Hugo documentation first.
- Go
- Go is the programming language that drives Hugo. Some of the jhDocs scripts rely on Go commands.
- Download the Go installer for your machine’s OS.
- Node.js
- Node.js is used to power some of the jhDocs scripts.
- You’ll need version 14 or newer of Node.js. You can check the node version from a terminal shell using the
node --versioncommand.
- npm
- npm is used to power some of the jhDocs scripts.
- npm typically gets installed along with the Node.js installation.
- git
- Your local git installation works with GitHub to manage source control for your doc site’s content.
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Last updated Tue Mar 17 2026