Very nice! I was thinking about migrating my blog which has been running with Eleventy for the past few years. It might be the perfect opportunity :)
What do you find missing in Eleventy?
To be honest, I miss React :)
Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
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Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#22I'm looking at https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/why-astro/ and I still can't tell what's interesting and unique about this as compared to other options in this space. I acknowledge that this might be a PEBKAC situation, but I'd love to hear thoughts from people who used Next.js, Remix, or whatever and found Astro to be a revelation. It seems like Astro's creators believe "content-focused" is a differentiator, but…
If you look at the project structure it uses that might help make it more clear the capabilities: https://docs.astro.build/en/core-concepts/project-structure/ Content-focused seems to highlight that you can just dump markdown files into it and spit out rendered pages, very much like content focused static site generators (hugo, jekyll, etc.). But in addition to that static content it has all kinds of hooks and capabilities to add dynamic components or even pages, kind of like more modern web application platforms like next.js.
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#23Can anyone explain if it's replacement of Next/remix to build complex sites or more like a SSG?
I believe the most complex use case they are targeting is an ecommerce site. Definitely not something as client-side-heavy as, say, Excalidraw, etc.
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#24> If your project falls into the second “application” camp, Astro might not be the right choice for your project…
Plenty of applications in the second category (logged-in admin dashboards, to-do lists, etc.) have been developed using server-first frameworks, and some of us still prefer to develop web applications that way. Is Astro missing any key features for dynamic server-first applications, e.g. form submission and validation support? If not, I think the Astro developers might be selling Astro and MPAs short.
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#25Serious question: Why does Astro need a custom file format? The format looks identical to MDX
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#26Is there a static site generator out there that doesn't require a ridiculous build process every time I do an update?
Inevitably, when a new "hot" SSG comes on the scene, I try it, and then go back to compare it to the old "hot" SSG from 2 years ago. Yet, I can never get the old test site I set up running again without massive annoyances. This has happened multiple times.
As far as I'm concerned, there's zero reason your landing pages and blog should require 3,000 dependencies to run.
And like all SSGs, I see no mention of sane SEO defaults on the homepage. Let me guess--with Astro I'm going to have to set all of this up myself?
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#27> If your project falls into the second “application” camp, Astro might not be the right choice for your project… Plenty of applications in the second category (logged-in admin dashboards, to-do lists, etc.) have been developed using server-first frameworks, and some of us still prefer to develop web applications that way. Is Astro missing any key features for dynamic server-first applications, e.g. form submission a…
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#28Is there a static site generator out there that doesn't require a ridiculous build process every time I do an update? Inevitably, when a new "hot" SSG comes on the scene, I try it, and then go back to compare it to the old "hot" SSG from 2 years ago. Yet, I can never get the old test site I set up running again without massive annoyances. This has happened multiple times. As far as I'm concerned, there's zero reason…
Astro is that tool. It can output a server that can react immediately every time you do an update.
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" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not a shallow dismissal, it's the scourge of our industry; I can't wait to retire so that I would never have to look at it again. Give it a rest with virtue signalling.