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Welcome to Astro!

Astro is a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience. Astro borrowed the best parts of our favorite tools and then added a few innovations, including:

🚀 Bring Your Own Framework (BYOF): Build your site using React, Svelte, Vue, Preact, web components, or just plain ol’ HTML + JavaScript.
🚀 100% Static HTML, No JS: Astro renders your entire page to static HTML, removing all JavaScript from your final build by default.
🚀 On-Demand Components: Need some JS? Astro can automatically hydrate interactive components when they become visible on the page. If the user never sees it, they never load it.
🚀 Fully-Featured: Astro supports TypeScript, Scoped CSS, CSS Modules, Sass, Tailwind, Markdown, MDX, and any of your favorite npm packages.
🚀 SEO Enabled: Automatic sitemaps, RSS feeds, pagination and collections take the pain out of SEO and syndication.

How it works

Astro works a lot like a static site generator. If you have ever used Eleventy, Hugo, or Jekyll (or even a server-side web framework like Rails, Laravel, or Django) then you should feel right at home with Astro.

In Astro, you compose your website using UI components from your favorite JavaScript web framework (React, Svelte, Vue, etc). Astro renders your entire site to static HTML during the build. The result is a fully static website with all JavaScript removed from the final page. No monolithic JavaScript application required, just static HTML that loads as fast as possible in the browser regardless of how many UI components you used to generate it.

Of course, sometimes client-side JavaScript is inevitable. Image carousels, shopping carts, and auto-complete search bars are just a few examples of things that require some JavaScript to run in the browser. This is where Astro really shines: When a component needs some JavaScript, Astro only loads that one component (and any dependencies). The rest of your site continues to exist as static, lightweight HTML.

In other full-stack web frameworks this level of per-component optimization would be impossible without loading the entire page in JavaScript, delaying interactivity. In Astro, this kind of partial hydration is built into the tool itself.

You can even automatically defer components to only load once they become visible on the page with the :visible modifier.

This new approach to web architecture is called islands architecture. We didn’t coin the term, but Astro may have perfected the technique. We are confident that an HTML-first, JavaScript-only-as-needed approach is the best solution for the majority of content-based websites.

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Roger Rajaratnam

Oct 6

ESLint, Prettier, and Husky for an Astro Site

#astro #engineering #tooling

7 min read

Veilvex

Oct 29

llms.txt on a 4-language static site: how we generate it, validate it and keep it honest

#seo #ai #webdev #astro

4 min read

Linc

Oct 29

How I let clients edit their Astro site without giving them WordPress back

#webdev #astro #wordpress #freelance

4 min read

Chris

Oct 5

89 German bylaws, three ways to bill rain: building a fee dataset people can cite

#datavalidation #javascript #astro #opendata

6 min read

Thành Nguyễn

Oct 5

600+ game pages from one TypeScript file: lessons from building a static games site with Astro

#astro #webdev #seo #javascript

6 min read

LankaSolve

Oct 28

I put every government fee on my site in a CSV, with an expiry date

#astro #webdev #javascript #opendata

4 min read

Test Page for Printer

Oct 4

One layout file, three outputs: building printer test pages as real CMYK PDFs with Astro

#astro #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Roman Mikhailov (Роман Михайлов)

Oct 4

Technical SEO on Astro: what I learned from 400 generated URLs

#astro #seo #webdev

3 min read

Fintrava

Oct 27

Building a Fast, Privacy-First Financial Calculator Suite with Astro: Lessons from Fintrava

#webdev #astro #javascript #jellyfin

3 min read

orca forge

Oct 3

Automatically Generating OGP Images for Each Article on Astro Blog

#astro #ogp

8 min read

Sanity Challenge Path Two Submission

CedarProof AI work

Oct 2

ClaimLadder: follow the work, count the receipts

#devchallenge #sanitychallenge #sanity #astro

4 min read

Sébastien Descloux

Oct 1

EmDash 1.0 vs WordPress: When Should You Consider This Astro CMS?

#webdev #astro #wordpress #typescript

5 min read

Gray Chen

Sep 30

7.2 KB of my first-paint script wasn't mine — and my own size budget was hiding it

#webdev #performance #javascript #astro

7 min read

Sep 30

Two open-source starter templates: a premium Next.js portfolio and varsha, an Astro site starter

#webdev #nextjs #astro #opensource

2 min read

Jen Looper for Cloudinary

Oct 22

"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree": A Fall Foliage App Build

#webdev #astro #programming #newbie

5 min read

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