# netlify-templates/victor-hugo

Victor Hugo is a Hugo boilerplate for creating truly epic websites!

Repository: https://github.com/netlify-templates/victor-hugo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/victor-hugo
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-12-23T20:45:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3711, "days_push": 1714, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1508, forks 362 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:55.540928+00:00)

## What it is
Victor Hugo is a boilerplate combining the Hugo static site generator with a Webpack 5 asset pipeline, including PostCSS and Babel for CSS and JavaScript transpiling. It is a Netlify template designed for quickly scaffolding modern static websites.

## Use cases
- scaffold a hugo static site with webpack asset pipeline
- boilerplate for building a blog with hugo and postcss
- set up a static website ready to deploy on netlify
- use babel to transpile javascript in a hugo project
- start a static site with hot reload during development

## When to choose
- you want a preconfigured hugo plus webpack setup for a static site
- you need postcss and babel integrated with hugo out of the box
- you deploy static sites to netlify and want a ready-made template

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained template - this project is deprecated
- you prefer modern alternatives like the recommended Hyas template
- you do not use node.js v16 or the legacy toolchain this relies on

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: static-site-generator, build-tool, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: hugo, webpack, postcss, babel, netlify, static-site, boilerplate, deprecated, boilerplate, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- netlify-templates/victor-hugo (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:55.540928+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:32:46.815577+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/netlify-templates/victor-hugo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:55.540928+00:00, sha c00a171f98ee)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.