HUGO-MOD-NPM(1)

💅 hugo-mod-npm — like, the npm helpers era 🎀

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Hugo Manual, and it's all about hugo-mod-npm — the little subcommand that handles your npm biz. iykyk.

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✨ NAME ✨

hugo-mod-npm — various npm helpers 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hugo mod npm [command] [flags]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Various npm (Node package manager) helpers. that's it, that's the vibe — it's the corner of Hugo that speaks npm. iconic behavior honestly 💖

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help[=false] — help for npm. the classic "wait what does this do again" button ✨

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these bad boys come down from the parent command, so they work here too — no cap, they're inherited 🧚

• --clock="" — set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00 ⏰
• --config="" — config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml)
• --configDir="config" — config dir
• -d, --destination="" — filesystem path to write files to
• -e, --environment="" — build environment
• --ignoreVendorPaths="" — ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern
• --logLevel="" — log level (debug|info|warn|error)
• --noBuildLock[=false] — don't create .hugo_build.lock file
• --quiet[=false] — build in quiet mode 🤫
• -M, --renderToMemory[=false] — render to memory (mostly useful when running the server)
• -s, --source="" — filesystem path to read files relative from
• --themesDir="" — filesystem path to themes directory

ok real talk: --renderToMemory is giving "mostly useful when running the server" energy — that's straight from the docs, not me guessing 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• hugo-mod(1)
• hugo-mod-npm-pack(1)

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go check out hugo-mod-npm-pack next, she's the main character of this little family 🦋 and that's the whole page, periodt 💅

Hugo 0.169.0 · Oct 2026 — mwah, luv u, go read the other manpages bestie 🍓💜