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title: "Migrate to Hugo Modules" linkTitle: "Migrate to Hugo Modules" weight: 3 description: >

Convert an existing site to use Docsy as a Hugo Module

TL;DR: Conversion for the impatient expert

Run the following from the command line:

{{< tabpane >}} {{< tab header="CLI:" disabled=true />}} {{< tab header="Unix shell" lang="Bash" >}} cd /path/to/my-existing-site hugo mod init github.com/me-at-github/my-existing-site hugo mod get github.com/google/docsy@v{{% param "version" %}} sed -i '/theme = ["docsy"]/d' config.toml mv config.toml hugo.toml cat >> hugo.toml <}} {{< tab header="Windows command line" lang="Batchfile" >}} cd my-existing-site hugo mod init github.com/me-at-github/my-existing-site hugo mod get github.com/google/docsy@v{{% param "version" %}} findstr /v /c:"theme = [\"docsy\"]" config.toml > hugo.toml (echo [module]^

proxy = "direct"^

[[module.imports]]^

path = "github.com/google/docsy")>>hugo.toml hugo server {{< /tab >}} {{< /tabpane >}}

Detailed conversion instructions

Import the Docsy theme module as a dependency of your site

At the command prompt, change to the root directory of your existing site.

cd /path/to/my-existing-site

Only sites that are Hugo Modules themselves can import other Hugo Modules. Turn your existing site into a Hugo Module by running the following command from your site directory, replacing github.com/me/my-existing-site with your site repository:

hugo mod init github.com/me/my-existing-site

This creates two new files, go.mod for the module definitions and go.sum which holds the checksums for module verification.

Next declare the Docsy theme module as a dependency for your site.

hugo mod get github.com/google/docsy@v{{% param "version" %}}

This command adds the docsy theme module to your definition file go.mod.

Update your config file

In your hugo.toml/hugo.yaml/hugo.json file, update the theme setting to use Hugo Modules. Find the following line:

{{< tabpane >}} {{< tab header="Configuration file:" disabled=true />}} {{< tab header="hugo.toml" lang="toml" >}} theme = ["docsy"] {{< /tab >}} {{< tab header="hugo.yaml" lang="yaml" >}} theme: docsy {{< /tab >}} {{< tab header="hugo.json" lang="json" >}} "theme": "docsy" {{< /tab >}} {{< /tabpane >}}

Change this line to:

{{< tabpane >}} {{< tab header="Configuration file:" disabled=true />}} {{< tab header="hugo.toml" lang="toml" >}} theme = ["github.com/google/docsy"] {{< /tab >}} {{< tab header="hugo.yaml" lang="yaml" >}} theme:

• github.com/google/docsy {{< /tab >}} {{< tab header="hugo.json" lang="json" >}} "theme": [ "github.com/google/docsy" ] {{< /tab >}} {{< /tabpane >}}

Alternatively, you can omit this line altogether and replace it with the settings given in the following snippet:

{{< tabpane >}} {{< tab header="Configuration file:" disabled=true />}} {{< tab header="hugo.toml" lang="toml" >}} [module] proxy = "direct" # uncomment line below for temporary local development of module # replacements = "github.com/google/docsy -> ../../docsy" [module.hugoVersion]

extended = true
min = "0.73.0"

[[module.imports]]

path = "github.com/google/docsy"
disable = false

{{< /tab >}} {{< tab header="hugo.yaml" lang="yaml" >}} module: proxy: direct hugoVersion:

extended: true
min: 0.73.0

imports:

- path: github.com/google/docsy
  disable: false
- path: github.com/google/docsy/dependencies
  disable: false

{{< /tab >}} {{< tab header="hugo.json" lang="json" >}} { "module": {

"proxy": "direct",
"hugoVersion": {
  "extended": true,
  "min": "0.73.0"
},
"imports": [
  {
    "path": "github.com/google/docsy",
    "disable": false
  },
  {
    "path": "github.com/google/docsy/dependencies",
    "disable": false
  }
]

} } {{< /tab >}} {{< /tabpane >}}

You can find details of what these configuration settings do in the Hugo modules documentation. Depending on your environment you may need to tweak them slightly, for example by adding a proxy to use when downloading remote modules.

{{% alert title="Tip" %}} In Hugo 0.110.0 the default config base filename was changed to hugo.toml. If you are using hugo 0.110 or above, we recommend renaming your config.toml to hugo.toml! {{% /alert %}}

{{% alert title="Attention" color="warning" %}} If you have a multi language installation, please make sure that the section [languages] inside your hugo.toml is declared before the section [module] with the module imports. Otherwise you will run into trouble! {{% /alert %}}

Check validity of your configuration settings

To make sure that your configuration settings are correct, run the command hugo mod graph which prints a module dependency graph:

hugo mod graph
hugo: collected modules in 1092 ms
github.com/me/my-existing-site github.com/google/docsy@v{{% param "version" %}}
github.com/google/docsy@v{{% param "version" %}} github.com/twbs/bootstrap@v5.2.3+incompatible
github.com/google/docsy@v{{% param "version" %}} github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome@ v0.0.0-20230802202706-f0c25837a3fe

Make sure that three lines with dependencies docsy, bootstrap and Font-Awesome are listed. If not, please double check your config settings.

{{% alert title="Tip" %}} In order to clean up your module cache, issue the command hugo mod clean

hugo mod clean
hugo: collected modules in 995 ms
hugo: cleaned module cache for "github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome"
hugo: cleaned module cache for "github.com/google/docsy"
hugo: cleaned module cache for "github.com/twbs/bootstrap"

{{% /alert %}}

Clean up your repository

Since your site now uses Hugo Modules, you can remove docsy from the themes directory, as instructed below. First, change to the root directory of your site:

cd /path/to/my-existing-site

Previous use of Docsy theme as git clone

Simply remove the subdirectory docsy inside your themes directory:

rm -rf themes/docsy

Previous use of Docsy theme as git submodule

If your Docsy theme was installed as submodule, use git's rm subcommand to remove the subdirectory docsy inside your themes directory:

git rm -rf themes/docsy

You are now ready to commit your changes to your repository:

git commit -m "Removed docsy git submodule"

{{% alert title="Attention" color="warning" %}} Be careful when using the rm -rf command, make sure that you don't inadvertently delete any productive data files! {{% /alert %}}