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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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jmoreno

Mar 1

Sharing React Query State Across Astro Islands

#astro #react #reactquery #islands

6 min read

Feb 27

Creating a Slide repository with Astro and Reveal.js

#astro #webdev #javascript #revealjs

3 min read

Feb 24

Image Optimization in Astro: Boost Site Performance and SEO

#seo #astro

1 min read

Feb 24

Build a Simple Blog with Astro, BCMS & TailwindCSS

#webdev #astro #bcms #cms

1 min read

Eduardo Ottaviani Aragão

Feb 23

Astro + Jails - A Perfect Match

#astro #javascript #webdev #frontend

2 min read

Feb 16

How to work with Storybook and Astro Image

#astro #storybook #vite #webdev

2 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Feb 16

Cómo integrar azure advisor con react y node.js

#nextjs #azure #astro #spanish

4 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Feb 16

Visualización de costos de Azure en Astro: una solución práctica

#nextjs #azure #astro #spanish

9 min read

Feb 27

I Learned the Astro Framework in 3 Hours: A Journey from Next.js to Astro with TailwindCSS V4 🚀

#astro #webdev #programming #learning

3 min read

Feb 13

5+ Best static site generators 2025

#nextjs #astro #webdev #staticframeworks

4 min read

Feb 9

Roast My Portfolio

#portfolio #astro #javascript

1 min read

Michael Andreuzza

Jan 23

If your project is built with Astro JS and Tailwind CSS here is a short guide to upgrade to Tailwind CSS v4.

#tailwindcss #astro

1 min read

Dipankar Maikap for Storyblok

Feb 3

Announcing Stable Live Preview for Storyblok’s Astro SDK

#astro #livepreview #opensource #integration

2 min read

Alexei

Jan 14

Transforming Starlight into PDF: experience and insights

#webdev #astro #javascript #pdf

5 min read

nuro

Jan 16

How to build an Astro collection loader

#javascript #webdev #typescript #astro

5 min read

Jan 11

Use LateX in Astro.js for Markdown Rendering

#astro #javascript #markdown #webdev

2 min read

Feb 3

How to use multiple JSX frameworks in Astro

#astro #react #solidjs #tutorial

6 min read

Dipankar Maikap

Feb 9

How to Use Tailwind CSS v4 in Astro

#astro #tailwindcss #webdev #uidesign

2 min read

Vadim Smirnov for CKEditor

Feb 6

Create a Rich Text Editor with Astro, Preact & CKEditor 5

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #astro

7 min read

Jan 27

Statichunt: A Hub for Designers, Developers, and Entrepreneurs

#astro #nextjs #nocode #opensource

1 min read

Dec 23 '24

Roast my portfolio

#portfolio #astro #webdev

1 min read

Jan 14

Dynamic Routes in Astro (+load parameters from JSON)

#astro #webdev #typescript #json

4 min read

Jan 21

Using React with Astro: A Quick Tutorial

#astro #react #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

Jan 20

Exploring Astro: Your New Favorite Web Framework

#webdev #javascript #astro #beginners

3 min read

Jackie Yio Hex 🍥

Dec 16 '24

SvelteKit VS Astro. laidback side by side

#discuss #sveltekit #astro #webdev

1 min read

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