Astro is great. It checks all of my checkboxes. I hope this is not the beginning of the end.
Cloudflare acquires Astro
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Re: Cloudflare acquires Astro
#22It would be good to understand what Cloudflare gets out of the deal. The article is very much just "Astro, but someone else pays the bills!" which is of course lovely for Astro.
Same reason vercel buys open source... it makes cloudflare always a great deployment option for all Astro sites, which in turn helps cloudflare's core business.
For example, Cloudflare released their vite plugin which makes it effortless for frameworks that use the vite env API to run inside workerd (meaning you get to use cloudflare service bindings in dev) back in April and only React Router had support for it. Nextjs has no support, the draft PR to add support for Sveltekit has been parked until the next major version, Astro only just added support in their beta 6.0 release 3 days ago
With this acquisition, Astro will probably be first to future updates that increase compatibility with cloudflare. It's smart, and was probably not very expensive (more of an acqui-hire)
Re: Cloudflare acquires Astro
#23Why does Cloudflare need a web framework? Most obvious would be they think they can make money from hosting astro sites (like Vercel and NextJS). I hope Cloudflare's impact on Astro will be tiny. But another great thing being swallowed by big tech...
> But another great thing being swallowed by big tech...
I will never use Cloudflare if I can help it, but this outcome is preferable to Astro becoming abandonware.
Re: Cloudflare acquires Astro
#24It would be good to understand what Cloudflare gets out of the deal. The article is very much just "Astro, but someone else pays the bills!" which is of course lovely for Astro.
What does Vercel get out of Next.js? Just default integration of overpriced cloud infra.
Re: Cloudflare acquires Astro
#25I am very disappointed with Astro. Who is this framework for? It's been years, and they still don't support unit testing Astro Actions. They still don't support inter-island communication. "Astro v6 is around the corner" - and the only changes are 1. refactored CLI (why? it's perfectly fine) 2. bumped zod to v4 It's great if you want to build a blog or something, but it's definitely far from great for building apps .…
If all you are writing a blog and you're not using Substack or Squarespace or any of the other million blog hosting options you're crazy IMO.
If you aren’t realizing the importance of POSSE imho that’s crazy ;-)
Re: Cloudflare acquires Astro
#26After Netlify acquired GatsbyJS, I am not very hopeful about the future of Astro. I hope to be wrong because Astro is a great framework.
It still baffles me why Netlify did that. Gatsby seemed to have already been dying, even before the acquisition; and it didn't look like Netlify was planning to invest in it.
Re: Cloudflare acquires Astro
#27Damn. What alternatives does HN recommend?
Well, there's this other project that recently secured funding from a company that has a proven track record of supporting great open-source projects like Astro, TanStack, and Hono without trying to capture or lock anything down.
There's even an article about it somewhere.
Re: Cloudflare acquires Astro
#28Damn. What alternatives does HN recommend?
Eleventy, of course :-)
But why are you looking for alternatives already?
Re: Cloudflare acquires Astro
#29I am very disappointed with Astro. Who is this framework for? It's been years, and they still don't support unit testing Astro Actions. They still don't support inter-island communication. "Astro v6 is around the corner" - and the only changes are 1. refactored CLI (why? it's perfectly fine) 2. bumped zod to v4 It's great if you want to build a blog or something, but it's definitely far from great for building apps .…
> Who is this framework for?... It's great if you want to build a blog or something, but it's definitely far from great for building apps.
Not an Astro expert, but the massive headline at the top of the homepage may provide a clue as to their intended audience:
> The web framework for content-driven websites
Re: Cloudflare acquires Astro
#30Astro is great and I hope they keep improving after the acquisition.
Given what agents can do, I feel a lot of the sites built on Webflow, Framer and so on will move to code and Astro is a great framework for this.