What is Astro?
It is a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience.
It combines decades of proven performance best practices with the DX improvements of the component-oriented era. Use your favorite JavaScript framework and automatically ship the bare-minimum amount of JavaScript—by default.
Astro is a tool in the Static Site Generators category of a tech stack.
Astro is an open source tool with 47.5K GitHub stars and 2.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Astro's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Astro?
Companies
28 companies reportedly use Astro in their tech stacks, including Appwrite, radrat, and FashionUnited.
Developers
181 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Astro.
Astro Integrations
JavaScript, Markdown, Netlify, Vercel, and Firebase Hosting are some of the popular tools that integrate with Astro. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Astro.
Decisions about Astro
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Astro in their tech stack.
Tyler Kneidl
Full Stack Engineer at Abstract · | 4 upvotes · 16.8K views
Looking to move our product from Create React App to ssr. I’d been drawn to Remix for some time but with all the hype around Astro, I’m curious what someone more familiar can contribute… What would be your reason for choosing Remix vs Astro?
Astro's Features
- A new build engine
- Components in Markdown (like MDX, but without the JSX)
- Improved npm package support (also powered by Vite!)
- Improved errors, stack traces, HMR, and overall dev experience
- A grab-bag of other new features for you to explore
Astro Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Astro?
Postman
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Postman
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