--- title: Developer Tools linktitle: Developer Tools Overview description: In addition to Hugo's powerful CLI, there is a large number of community-developed tool chains for Hugo developers. date: 2016-12-05 publishdate: 2016-12-05 lastmod: 2017-02-26 categories: [developer tools] #tags: [] menu: docs: parent: "tools" weight: 01 weight: 01 sections_weight: 01 draft: false aliases: [/tools/] --- One of Hugo's greatest strengths is it's passionate---and always evolving---developer community. With the exception of the `highlight` shortcode mentioned in [Syntax Highlighting][syntax], the tools and other projects featured in this section are offerings from both commercial services and open-source projects, many of which are developed by Hugo developers just like you. [See the popularity of Hugo compared with other static site generators.][staticgen] [staticgen]: https://staticgen.com [syntax]: /tools/syntax-highlighting/