We are very excited to unveil the newly rebuilt Effect website - a major step forward in both functionality and performance! This update represents an exciting milestone as we transition to using Astro, a change that will allow us to deliver a better experience to our growing community of developers.
Why the Switch to Astro?
Over the past year, the Effect website has grown significantly, becoming the go-to source for everything Effect — from in-depth documentation to key announcements and beyond. This growth has been invaluable to the community, providing a wealth of resources on Effect. However, as the site expanded, maintaining and updating the site’s content has become one of our biggest challenges.
Our previous content management solution relied on a patchwork mixture of disparate tooling, resulting in progressively slower build times as our content grew. The inability of our system to scale with our content became especially problematic as we began to consider adding more use-case driven examples and interactive tutorials to the site.
Switching to Astro has provided us with a unified, streamlined set of tools that has dramatically improved our workflow. Astro’s optimized approach to content management allows us to iterate, build, and deploy faster, supporting our commitment to creating an accessible, responsive, and continually evolving hub for Effect’s developer community.
What’s New
The newly rebuilt Effect website comes with several enhancements to improve the developer experience:
Better Support for Shiki Twoslash in Code Snippets
Improved Site-Wide Search
RSS Support for the Blog
Faster Load Time for the Effect Playground
…and many improvements that we don’t have room to list here!
What’s Next?
This release is just the beginning. The Effect team is actively working on new, use-case-driven documentation as well as hands-on tutorials to accelerate your onboarding experience.
Our goal is to make the Effect ecosystem as approachable as possible, empowering developers at all levels to quickly gain proficiency and confidence.
We hope you enjoy the new Effect website! Dive in, explore the features, and let us know what you think. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us shape the future of Effect.
The Effect Team
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