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Astro 7.0

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Re: Astro 7.0

#41
post #16

I really really like Astro, but I'm either getting old or it's something else. I just recently updated my website to Astro 6 and now... there's Astro 7. Maybe by the time I update, Astro 8 will be a few weeks in the future.

Cloudflare bought Astro recently, and as it states in docs it previously had cache plugins for 2 companies but not Cloudflare so that may have been a motivation along with the Vite update mentioned

Re: Astro 7.0

#44

I don't understand what this is, based on this statement: "Astro supports every major UI framework. Bring your existing components and take advantage of Astro's optimized client build performance." But isn't Astro a framework itself? And then apparently you need Node as well. The frameworks upon frameworks in Web development are baffling.

Web dev is a royal mess, but what isn't in current times? Too many opinions not enough direction.

Re: Astro 7.0

#45

I don't understand what this is, based on this statement: "Astro supports every major UI framework. Bring your existing components and take advantage of Astro's optimized client build performance." But isn't Astro a framework itself? And then apparently you need Node as well. The frameworks upon frameworks in Web development are baffling.

Astro is a meta-framework that allows you to plug in other web frameworks where you need it (React, Solid, etc). Although it would also be fair to consider Astro a sort of build tool / bundler.

Node is a runtime, not a framework.

So there's really only one framework here (Astro). Using other web frameworks within it is completely optional.

Re: Astro 7.0

#46

I made the Rust compiler and the Rust Markdown pipeline ( https://satteri.bruits.org ) in this, let me know if you have any questions, glad to answer anything!

My personal website uses Astro, so I'll be tickled that Rust is now in there too. Thanks for your work!

tickle tickle

Re: Astro 7.0

#47

I made the Rust compiler and the Rust Markdown pipeline ( https://satteri.bruits.org ) in this, let me know if you have any questions, glad to answer anything!

My personal website uses Astro, so I'll be tickled that Rust is now in there too. Thanks for your work!

Love everything you do Steve, consider that I've done it for you

Re: Astro 7.0

#48

I like the idea of astro, but never really used it. My main concern is. Does v7 mean that there have been 7 breaking changes thus far? So if I started my project on v1, I had to revise it 6 times to date? If yes, then this instability is a serious concern to me.

If you are using every single feature Astro has, your code somehow goes through every single branch (of every single dependency), etc then yes, but that'd be a pretty far-fetched scenario!

In practice, our users typically comment quite positively on how little (if any) work major updates requires, and we offer pretty extensive upgrade guides, if that helps.

Re: Astro 7.0

#49
I had tried astro for my personal website when it was released. It was a mess for me. I couldn't keep with so many components. I keep breaking things, one way or the other. I might have to try again to see what things have changed.

Re: Astro 7.0

#50

I saw the integration with Hono - hadn't heard of it before, do many people use it?

Hono is a) de-facto new express with proper typescript support b) the way to write serverless code that is not nailed to current platform quirks

So, yes, it’s very widely used backend for modern typescript backends

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