--- title: hugo linktitle: hugo description: The `hugo` function provides easy access to Hugo-related data. date: 2019-01-31 publishdate: 2019-01-31 keywords: [] categories: [functions] menu: docs: parent: "functions" toc: signature: ["hugo"] workson: [] hugoversion: relatedfuncs: [] deprecated: false draft: false aliases: [] --- `hugo` returns an instance that contains the following functions: hugo.Generator : `` tag for the version of Hugo that generated the site. `hugo.Generator` outputs a *complete* HTML tag; e.g. `` hugo.Version : the current version of the Hugo binary you are using e.g. `0.99.1` hugo.GoVersion : returns the version of Go that the Hugo binary was built with. {{< new-in "0.101.0" >}} hugo.Environment : the current running environment as defined through the `--environment` cli tag hugo.CommitHash : the git commit hash of the current Hugo binary e.g. `0e8bed9ccffba0df554728b46c5bbf6d78ae5247` hugo.BuildDate : the compile date of the current Hugo binary formatted with RFC 3339 e.g. `2002-10-02T10:00:00-05:00` hugo.IsExtended : whether this is the extended Hugo binary. hugo.IsProduction : returns true if `hugo.Environment` is set to the production environment {{% note "Use the Hugo Generator Tag" %}} We highly recommend using `hugo.Generator` in your website's ``. `hugo.Generator` is included by default in all themes hosted on [themes.gohugo.io](https://themes.gohugo.io). The generator tag allows the Hugo team to track the usage and popularity of Hugo. {{% /note %}} hugo.Deps : See [hugo.Deps](#hugodeps) ## hugo.Deps {{< new-in "0.92.0" >}} `hugo.Deps` returns a list of dependencies for a project (either Hugo Modules or local theme components). Each dependency contains: Path (string) : Returns the path to this module. This will either be the module path, e.g. "github.com/gohugoio/myshortcodes", or the path below your /theme folder, e.g. "mytheme". Version (string) : The module version. Vendor (bool) : Whether this dependency is vendored. Time (time.Time) : Time version was created. Owner : In the dependency tree, this is the first module that defines this module as a dependency. Replace (*Dependency) : Replaced by this dependency. An example table listing the dependencies: ```html

Dependencies

#	Owner	Path	Version	Time	Vendor
{{ add $index 1 }}	{{ with $element.Owner }}{{.Path }}{{ end }}	{{ $element.Path }} {{ with $element.Replace}} => {{ .Path }} {{ end }}	{{ $element.Version }}	{{ with $element.Time }}{{ . }}{{ end }}	{{ $element.Vendor }}

```