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Posted on August 14, 2023  (Last modified on June 19, 2025) • 2 min read • 351 words
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Hinode is fully open source and uses several open-source frameworks and libraries.

Team   Core Components   Optional Components   Themes  

Team  

Hinode is maintained by Mark Dumay  and several contributors as an open-source repository on GitHub  . You are more than welcome to contribute. Get involved in the development by Opening an Issue  or submitting a pull request. Read our Contributing Guidelines for information on how we develop.

Core Components  

Hinode is based on the following core components:

  • Hugo  is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in the Go Language  . It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with Markdown Content  and templates and renders them into a full HTML website.
  • Bootstrap  is a popular, open-source web development framework. Using a mobile-first approach, it provides several functions and components to simplify the creation of responsive websites.
  • Npm  is a software registry that enables the sharing and reuse of both open-source and private software packages. By taking advantage of its version management, software dependencies are easily tracked and updated.
  • Bookshop  is a component development workflow for static websites.
  • FlexSearch  is a flexible search library to enable full text search across your site.
  • Font Awesome  is a popular icon library and toolkit, used on over 200 million sites. The free version provides access to more than 2,000 icons. The toolkit also provides various styling and animation options out of the box.

Optional Components  

Hinode supports several opt-in components. In the default configuration, these components are added on a page-by-page basis:

  • KaTeX  is a fast math typesetting library for the web.
  • Leaflet  is an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
  • Lottie  is a library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as JSON with Bodymovin and renders them natively.
  • Mermaid  is a diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.
  • Simple Datatables  is a lightweight, extendable, JavaScript HTML table library.

Themes  

Hinode is inspired by the following themes:

  • Blist  is a clean and fast blog theme for your Hugo site using Tailwind CSS.
  • Doks  is a Hugo theme for building secure, fast, and SEO-ready documentation websites, which you can easily update and customize.
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