Hugo Theme Fiber

Overview

The Fiber theme is a Hugo theme designed for minimalists. It prioritizes fast loading times by using minimal JavaScript and CSS. It also offers a clean UI and is easy on the eyes.

Features

• SEO Ready: The theme is equipped with basic SEO features and includes minimal JSON-LD data from Schema.org.
• Shortcodes: In addition to the built-in shortcodes, Fiber includes several other useful shortcodes that can come in handy.
• ASCIINema: The theme allows you to embed an AsciiNema Cast using the provided shortcode.
• Can I Use: This shortcode displays the latest data from the caniuse.com website, which can be useful for web developers.
• Click to Copy Code: Visitors to the website can easily copy the content of any code block with just one click, without affecting code indentation.
• Beautiful Notes: The theme provides rough annotations for anything you put inside the content/notes directory, making it easier to recognize important information. Annotations are controlled using tags like strong, em, and strikethrough.
• Screenshots: Fiber supports adding screenshots to your site.
• Theme Set-up: The theme offers flexibility in setting up the homepage and listing content from custom directories.

Using Git Submodules (recommended):

1. Create your site using hugo new site SITE_NAME.
2. Change into the site's directory by running cd SITE_NAME.
3. Initialize a git repository: git init.
4. Add the Fiber theme as a git submodule: git submodule add git@github.com:abdus/hugo-theme-fiber.git themes/hugo-theme-fiber.
5. Start the Hugo server locally by running hugo serve.
6. To update the theme in the future, use git submodule update --remote.

Directly downloading the theme:

1. If you cannot use Git for some reason, download the theme's contents.
2. Extract the downloaded file and move its contents to <hugo-site-root>/themes/hugo-theme-fiber/.
3. Start Hugo locally by executing hugo serve from the terminal.

Summary

The Fiber theme is a minimalist Hugo theme that focuses on fast loading times and clean UI. It offers features such as SEO optimization, shortcodes, ASCIINema embedding, click to copy code, beautiful notes, and more. The theme can be installed either using Git submodules or by directly downloading the theme files.