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linkTitle: "Documentation"
title: Introduction
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👋 Hello! Welcome to the Hextra documentation!

## 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, it uses Tailwind CSS to provide 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 accomodate various lighting conditions.
- **Fast and Lightweight** - Powered by Hugo, a lightning-fast static-site generator within a single binary file, Hextra keeps its footprint minimal. No Javascript or Node are needed to use it.
- **Full-text Search** - Built-in offline full-text search powered by [FlexSearch][flex-search]. No configuration is required.
- **Battery included** - Hextra supports Markdown, syntax highlighting, LaTeX, diagrams, and comes with [Shortcodes](guide/shortcodes) components as building blocks for your Markdown content.
- **Multi-language and SEO Ready** - Multi-language sites made easy with Hugo's multilingual mode. Out of the box support for SEO tags, Open Graph, and Twitter Cards.

## Next

Dive right into the following section to get started:

{{< cards >}}
  {{< card link="getting-started" title="Getting Started" icon="document-text" subtitle="Learn how to create website using Hextra" >}}
{{< /cards >}}

[hugo]: https://gohugo.io/
[flex-search]: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
[tailwind-css]: https://tailwindcss.com/