How the site is built

How the site is built

The workshops subdomain content is built using the DocDock theme for Hugo. Hugo is a static site generator with a number of benefits:

1. Content authors can focus on content using markdown and not on the technical implementation of the site or CSS/page styling. Workshops are automagically added to the left table-of-contents and the workshops home page. Hugo works great locally (ex: on an airplane), and Hugo is the fastest static site generator, building the entire workshop site in <2 seconds.
2. Students benefit from a consistent UX across workshops, built-in accessibility, localization, responsive design supporting mobile-to-desktop, automated links to the GitHub repo, and fast global site performance using the Azure CDN.
3. Nuevo Dev Team benefits from the ability to build and customize workshop pages including custom page templates, built-in page controls for alerts, notes, buttons, warnings and more , custom controls (ex: the Nuevo header), iframe interactivity, custom metadata, automated cross-page linking, page theming, automated site map creation, built-in icons, and built-in automation using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps for build / deployment.