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This is about Astro, the framework where you build faster websites with less client-side JavaScript.

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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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Manuel Schröder for Storyblok

Sep 19 '24

Announcing a Storyblok Loader for the Astro Content Layer API

#storyblok #astro #headless #webdev

2 min read

Nebojsa Radakovic

Sep 18 '24

Final Testing, Going Live, and Summary (Nerd Streetwear Online Store) Part IV

#webdev #astro #frontend #testing

6 min read

Nebojsa Radakovic

Sep 17 '24

Advance Features and Deploying the Project (Nerd Streetwear Online Store) Part III

#webdev #astro #frontend #commerce

8 min read

Nebojsa Radakovic

Sep 16 '24

Building the Frontend with Astro and Integration with Stripe (Nerd Streetwear Online Store) Part II

#astro #frontend #headless #webdev

9 min read

Aug 14 '24

DevNow：支持集成 Tina CMS

#astro #opensource #markdown #webdev

2 min read

Waricha

Sep 16 '24

Astro + Cloudflare Pages: A Beginner's Guide to Fast and Easy Deployment

#astro #webdev #beginners #tutorial

6 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Aug 11 '24

New Major Update on Our Website

#astro #webdev #programming #react

3 min read

MT

Aug 11 '24

BroadcastChannel - Turn your Telegram Channel into a MicroBlog

#telegram #astro #microblog #github

2 min read

Harshal Ranjhani for CodeParrot

Sep 12 '24

Astro.js Getting started with a static site generator

#astro #javascript #webdev #staticsitegenerator

9 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Aug 31 '24

Usar OpenAI como Asistente para tu equipo de trabajo: Implementación y ventajas

#nextjs #openai #astro #spanish

6 min read

Peli de Halleux

Aug 30 '24

GenAI Image Alt Text

#a11y #webdev #genaiscript #astro

2 min read

Sep 6 '24

Como atingir nota 100 em performance no Lighthouse utilizando o Astro.build?

#frontend #performance #lighthouse #astro

3 min read

Ko Htet

Sep 5 '24

Using Aceternity UI in Astro

#tutorial #astro #react #ui

3 min read

Sep 3 '24

Astro + Vercel Serverless API

#vercel #astro #serverless #portfolio

3 min read

Aug 21 '24

Astro + Nx + Paraglide - Creating i18n module

#webdev #javascript #astro #programming

5 min read

Aug 31 '24

Mitosis - Using Astro.js as the dev server to preview the component with hot-reload

#mitosis #react #svelte #astro

6 min read

Daniel T Sasser II

Aug 27 '24

Getting Started with Astro SSR SPA for E-Commerce with HTMX

#astro #htmx #tailwindcss #webdev

12 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Jul 16 '24

Integración de Kafka para notificaciones en un proyecto Astro y Next.js

#astro #kafka #azure #nextjs

5 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Jul 15 '24

Nueva gran actualización en nuestro sitio web

#blog #concepto #astro #spanish

4 min read

Aug 17 '24

Creating dynamic route language for i18n in Astro Build

#webdev #astro #learning #javascript

4 min read

Aug 17 '24

Criando rotas dinâmicas para internacionalização (i18n) com Astro Build

#webdev #astro #learning #javascript

4 min read

Aug 17 '24

Extending AstroJS Markdown Processing With Remark and Rehype Plugins

#astro #remark #rehype #markdown

5 min read

Jun 26 '24

Demasiados frameworks de JS, pero por qué?

#frameworks #webdev #javascript #astro

3 min read

Syakir

Jul 24 '24

How I Migrated From Wordpress to Astro: Boosted Pagespeed Scores to 100% and Cut 100% Hosting cost

#webdev #javascript #astro #programming

7 min read

jeremiec

Jun 16 '24

A tale about migrating a 200 entries Gatsby blog untouched for 3 years to Astro

#astro #gatsby #performance

7 min read

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