Struggling to understand docs on how to use this module

[Logan Marchione]

Hi,

I'd like to use Simple Icons in my site, but I'm not understanding Hugo modules. Below is my config.yaml file.

module:
  hugoVersion:
    extended: true
  imports:
    - path: github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod
    - path: github.com/foo-dogsquared/hugo-mod-simple-icons 

I then run these commands:

hugo mod init github.com/loganmarchione/loganmarchione.com
hugo mod get
hugo server

I can serve the site, and my theme works, but I'm not seeing anything in my assets folder. I was expecting to see some SVG files inside assets/svg/simple-icons. Is this not correct?

% tree assets
assets
└── css
    └── extended
        └── pre.css

[Gabriel Arazas]

You shouldn't see any additional files in your assets folder. Any files imported through Hugo Modules are not visible in the filesystem. Instead, they are managed by Hugo through a virtual filesystem. So if you have the following code...

{{ $icon := resources.Get "svg/simple-icons/github.svg" }
{{ $icon.Permalink }}

...Hugo will search through the virtual filesystem to get that asset which is available from github.com/foo-dogsquared/hugo-mod-simple-icons.

If you build the Hugo site with the above code snippet, you should now see that one of the icons from my Hugo module through the publishDir, verifying that it works (see Assets publishing from Hugo docs).

Hope that clears up how Hugo modules work. Let me if you have more questions about Hugo modules.

[Logan Marchione]

Ah ok, I wasn't aware of that. I've got it working now, thank you!