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👋 Hello! Welcome to the Hextra documentation!

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## What is Hextra?

Hextra is a modern, fast and batteries-included [Hugo][hugo] theme built with [Tailwind CSS][tailwind-css].
Designed for building beautiful websites for documentation, blogs, and websites, it provides out-of-the-box features and flexibility to meet various requirements.

## Features

- **Beautiful Design** - Inspired by Nextra, Hextra utilizes Tailwind CSS to offer a modern design that makes your site look outstanding.
- **Responsive Layout and Dark Mode** - It looks great on all devices, from mobile, tablet to desktop. Dark mode is also supported to accommodate various lighting conditions.
- **Fast and Lightweight** - Powered by Hugo, a lightning-fast static-site generator housed in a single binary file, Hextra keeps its footprint minimal. No JavaScript or Node.js are needed to use it.
- **Full-text Search** - Built-in offline full-text search powered by FlexSearch, no additional configuration required.
- **Battery-included** - Markdown, syntax highlighting, LaTeX math formulae, diagrams and Shortcodes elements to enhance your content. Table of contents, breadcrumbs, pagination, sidebar navigation and more are all automatically generated.
- **Multi-language and SEO Ready** - Multi-language sites made easy with Hugo's multilingual mode. Out-of-the-box support is included for SEO tags, Open Graph, and Twitter Cards.

## Questions or Feedback?

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  Hextra is still in active development.
  Have a question or feedback? Feel free to [open an issue](https://github.com/imfing/hextra/issues)!
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## Next

Dive right into the following section to get started:

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  {{< card link="getting-started" title="Getting Started" icon="document-text" subtitle="Learn how to create website using Hextra" >}}
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[hugo]: https://gohugo.io/
[flex-search]: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
[tailwind-css]: https://tailwindcss.com/