Hugo shortcodes make it easy to embed live code demos. Here are three ways:
1. Inline CSS Demo (No External Service) # A spinning loader animation, right in the article:
Pure CSS Spinner
A gradient text animation:
Why Hugo # When picking a framework for a personal blog, my top criterion was low maintenance cost — I didn’t want to abandon writing three months later because of npm dependency hell.
Hugo is a single binary, requires no Node.js, builds thousands of posts in 1-2 seconds, and the PaperMod theme comes with dark mode, full-text search, RSS, Open Graph, and reading time estimates out of the box. Day-to-day writing only requires touching Markdown files.