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--- title: "Go Templates" date: "2013-07-01" --- Hugo uses the excellent golang html/template library for it's template engine. It is an extremely lightweight engine that provides a very small amount of logic. In our experience that it is just the right amount of logic to be able to create a good static website. This is a brief primer on using go templates. The [golang docs](http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/) provide more details.