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---
title: Hugo Pipes Introduction
description: Hugo Pipes is Hugo's asset processing set of functions.
date: 2018-07-14
publishdate: 2018-07-14
lastmod: 2018-07-14
categories: [asset management]
keywords: []
menu:
docs:
parent: "pipes"
weight: 20
weight: 01
sections_weight: 01
draft: false
aliases: [/assets/]
---
### Asset directory
Asset files must be stored in the asset directory. This is `/assets` by default, but can be configured via the configuration file's `assetDir` key.
### From file to resource
In order to process an asset with Hugo Pipes, it must be retrieved as a resource using `resources.Get`, which takes one argument: the filepath of the file relative to the asset directory.
```go-html-template
{{ $style := resources.Get "sass/main.scss" }}
```
### Asset publishing
Assets will only be published (to `/public`) if `.Permalink` or `.RelPermalink` is used.
### Go Pipes
For improved readability, the Hugo Pipes examples of this documentation will be written using [Go Pipes](/templates/introduction/#pipes):
```go-html-template
{{ $style := resources.Get "sass/main.scss" | resources.ToCSS | resources.Minify | resources.Fingerprint }}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ $style.Permalink }}">
```
### Method aliases
Each Hugo Pipes `resources` transformation method uses a __camelCased__ alias (`toCSS` for `resources.ToCSS`).
Non-transformation methods deprived of such aliases are `resources.Get`, `resources.FromString`, `resources.ExecuteAsTemplate` and `resources.Concat`.
The example above can therefore also be written as follows:
```go-html-template
{{ $style := resources.Get "sass/main.scss" | toCSS | minify | fingerprint }}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ $style.Permalink }}">
```
### Caching
Hugo Pipes invocations are cached based on the entire _pipe chain_.
An example of a pipe chain is:
```go-html-template
{{ $mainJs := resources.Get "js/main.js" | js.Build "main.js" | minify | fingerprint }}
```
The pipe chain is only invoked the first time it is encountered in a site build, and results are otherwise loaded from cache. As such, Hugo Pipes can be used in templates which are executed thousands or millions of times without negatively impacting the build performance.