Introducing Stargazer Layout: A Minimal & Elegant Hugo Theme

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Introduction

🚀 Meet Stargazer Layout: A Minimal & Elegant Hugo Theme

Are you looking for a lightweight, responsive, and elegant theme for your Hugo-powered website? Stargazer Layout is here to help you build a beautiful blog, portfolio, or documentation site with ease!

TLDR

Demo: https://blackstareye.github.io/stargazer-layout/
Link to Repo: https://github.com/Blackstareye/stargazer-layout
Link to Kofi for support: https://ko-fi.com/black_eye

Quick Start

First you have to install Hugo

then you can run this code in your shell after you switched to your project folder:

hugo new site my-site
cd my-site
echo "theme=[\"stargazer-layout\"]" >> hugo.toml
git clone https://github.com/Blackstareye/stargazer-layout themes/stargazer-layout
cd themes/stargazer-layout
npm install
cd ../..
hugo serve

What is Hugo ?

GoHugo is a static website generator framework, which helps you to create blazing fast website with good SEO and security by design.

The output of a website generator contains only js, html and css files which makes the deployment easy and nearly everywhere possible.

What is a Hugo Theme

A hugo theme is a component for gohugo which dictates the structure, layout and style for a website. It also enables devs to add features to the gohugo website.

Meet my Theme Stargazer

Stargazer Layout is a hugo theme module that uses beer css for styling and supports node_modules and importmaps. It offers features like minification, fingerprinting, and custom JS/CSS integration.

It's a theme that gives you a material-3 based designed blog as a default starting point.

Why I developed Stargazer Layout

I love the design choices of material 3. I think it gives a clean look and gives a website a modern look within a responsive design.
I also wanted a starting point for my business oriented theme stargazer. This Theme should be able to use node_modules, vue-applications and also able to be easy adaptable for new code injections. So I thought that a blog based theme template which includes those features is a good starting point. More over, I really love goHugo and open source projects, thus I wanted to give something back. This is my way to do it. :)

Support

If you want to support my dev works you can do that through
Ko-Fi

Sidenote:
It works great together with my other (paid) theme stargazer, which is currently in development.

✨ Features

🌙 Minimalist Design – Clean and distraction-free layout
⚡ Fast & Lightweight – Optimized for performance
📱 Responsive – Looks great on all devices
🎨 Customizable – Easy to tweak colors and styles
📖 Markdown Support – Write effortlessly with Hugo's Markdown
🏷️ Tags & Categories – Organize your content better
🔍 SEO-Optimized – Meta tags and structured data for better ranking
📂 Content Sections – Create blogs, portfolios, or documentation
🌍 Multilingual Support – Reach a global audience

🌟 Why Choose Stargazer Layout?

If you want a fast, SEO-friendly, and beautifully simple Hugo theme, Stargazer Layout is the perfect choice. Whether you're a developer, writer, or creative, this theme helps you focus on what matters—your content.

Also interesting

You can inject your own js, css snippets with ease. Also it is possible to use node_modules and even vue applications because of the import map module.