Hugo in Action

9 Accessing APIs to enhance functionality

This chapter covers

• Enhancing the website using APIs
• Embedding tweets into a web page
• Creating forms using third-party APIs
• Using form APIs to create dynamic forms
• Creating a JSON-based API using Hugo’s output formats

In the first half of this book, we worked on the Hugo website in isolation. This chapter involves using Hugo to get access to data from outside of our website. We will also add dynamic features and learn how the Jamstack can perform tasks requiring server intervention without sacrificing the website’s performance.

In this chapter, we will focus on APIs, the A in Jamstack. APIs are mechanisms with which systems or components in a system can interact. A service exposes certain functionality ...