--- title: "Deploy a free Gatsby, Hugo, or Eleventy website template in 30 seconds | Netlify" description: "Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!" source: "https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/07/03/deploy-a-free-gatsby-hugo-or-eleventy-website-template-in-30-seconds/" last_updated: "2026-08-05T05:01:51.000Z" --- Whether you are kicking off a new web project or just want to explore a new static site generator like Hugo, Gatsby, or Eleventy, you shouldn’t have to start from scratch. Shouldn’t you be able to quickly bootstrap a project, link it to a new Git repository, and deploy it? Oh, and bonus points if you can set up continuous deployment, HTTPS and a custom domain in the same workflow? Yep. We think so. That’s why we’ve started a collection of quick-start project [templates](https://www.netlify.com/integrations/templates/). ![A template page showing a Gatsby template on templates.netlify.com](/v3/img/blog/templates-page-screenshot.jpg) ## What’s inside Netlify’s free website templates? The central requirement for each of Netlify’s website templates is that you can kick off a project with a single click. Each template is a Git repository that you can clone and use either as a starting point for your own project, or as a chance to explore and learn about an particular framework, feature, technology or pattern. Different projects and developers have different requirements, so you’ll find a variety of templates here. Some include a little HTML and CSS styling. Some are bare bones. The current selection includes: - [GatsbyJS blog template](https://github.com/philhawksworth/gatsby-starter-blog/blob/master/README.md) - [Hugo blog template](https://github.com/netlify-templates/one-click-hugo-cms/blob/main/README.md) - [Eleventy blog template](https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog/blob/main/README.md) - [A site built with Hugo and managed by Netlify CMS](https://github.com/netlify-templates/one-click-hugo-cms/blob/main/README.md) - [A Gulp build pipeline for your JavaScript, Sass, Images, and any SSG](https://github.com/philhawksworth/eleventyone/blob/master/README.md) - [A serverless function workflow for AWS Lambda](https://github.com/philhawksworth/eleventyone/blob/master/README.md) - And more ## How do I use a template? Click the Deploy to Netlify button. That’s it. You’re done. ![An example of a Deploy to Netlify button](/v3/img/blog/dtn-button.png) A Deploy to Netlify button is a pointer to a repository. When you click one, it: - Clones the template repo into your own GitHub account (after asking for your permission) - Creates a new site project in Netlify for you and links it to your new repo - Installs all the dependencies - Sets up continuous deployment, branch builds, preview builds and HTTPS - Builds your site and deploys it to Netlify’s global CDN That’s a production environment you just provisioned! With continuous deployment ready to deploy your changes whenever you push to your new Git repo. ## Where do I find templates? Each template lives on its own page at [templates.netlify.com](https://www.netlify.com/integrations/templates/) so that you can bookmark and share whichever templates you find useful. We’ll continue to add more templates, tagging each one carefully so you can easily find what interests you, like [Gatsby](https://www.netlify.com/with/gatsby/), [Hugo](https://www.netlify.com/integrations/community-built/one-click-hugo-template/) or [Serverless](https://www.netlify.com/integrations/templates/). ## Can you contribute? You certainly can. We’ll curate the list quite carefully, but will gladly consider contributions. A well documented Git repo which successfully deploys to Netlify with [Deploy to Netlify button](https://docs.netlify.com/site-deploys/create-deploys/#deploy-to-netlify-button) is what you need. You can read more about raising a pull request to contribute your own templates in the [Netlify Templates repo README file](https://github.com/netlify/templates/blob/master/README.md). ## Ready to try one out? Great. Head over to [Netlify templates](https://www.netlify.com/integrations/templates/). Ready? Set? 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