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Show HN: Astral – Astro.js, but in Elixir

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Post by dannote » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 12:32 PM UTC

Show HN: Astral – Astro.js, but in Elixir
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Re: Show HN: Astral – Astro.js, but in Elixir

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Post by recursivegirth » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 1:51 PM UTC

Any major differentiators between this and Phoenix? I have been getting more into Elixir lately coming from Laravel and React projects. Been having a blast.

Re: Show HN: Astral – Astro.js, but in Elixir

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Post by DylanMerigaud » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC

Congrats on shipping this.

Re: Show HN: Astral – Astro.js, but in Elixir

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Post by dannote » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

recursivegirth wrote: post #2

Any major differentiators between this and Phoenix? I have been getting more into Elixir lately coming from Laravel and React projects. Been having a blast.

The main difference is that Astral is a static site generator. It also doesn’t require Node.js (or a compatible runtime), because it’s built on Volt [1], which in turn uses the QuickBEAM runtime [2].

[1] https://github.com/elixir-volt/volt

[2] https://github.com/elixir-volt/quickbeam