Hexo Blog Framework

Hexo is a fast, simple, and powerful blog framework created by Tommy Chen in 2012, built on Node.js, generating static HTML from Markdown content with support for themes, plugins, templates using EJS, Pug, Swig, and Nunjucks, multi-language content, and tag plugins for embedding rich content, adopted by over fifty thousand bloggers and documentation sites, particularly popular in the Chinese developer community with comprehensive theme and plugin ecosystems. The content system uses Markdown files with YAML frontmatter for metadata including title, date, categories, tags, and custom variables, with the scaffold system providing templates for creating new posts, and the source directory structure organizing posts, drafts, pages, and assets, while the tag plugin system enables embedding special content blocks within Markdown including code blocks with syntax highlighting, quotes, pullquotes, iframe embeds, YouTube videos, Vimeo videos, gist embeds, and post excerpts. The theming system uses layout files, partial templates, and template variables to render the blog with the theme engine processing EJS, Pug, Swig, or Nunjucks templates, with the theme configuration file controlling colors, fonts, navigation menus, sidebar widgets, social links, comment systems, and analytics, while over three hundred community themes provide ready-to-use designs from minimal blog themes to complex magazine layouts. The deployment system generates static files to the public directory, deployable to GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, and any static hosting, with one-command deployment through deployer plugins. The plugin ecosystem extends Hexo with new generators, renderers, helpers, and deployers. Designed by Tommy Chen. Designed for bloggers and documentation.