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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
#12Very 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 :)
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#13Can anyone explain if it's replacement of Next/remix to build complex sites or more like a SSG?
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#14Very 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?
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#15I'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…
As far as I can tell, Astro is zero-js on the client by default, while both Next and Remix are very much the opposite.
Plus, both Next and Remix are tightly coupled with React, whereas Astro is trying to be more agnostic in that regard.
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#16So excited for this. SSR with Astro is a gamechanger which opens up its usage to so many different avenues. Great strides with framework interop too. Named Slots really closing the gaps.
And of course any framework where SolidJS can shine so bright is going to be the top of my list.
Congratulations on an amazing release.
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#17I've used Astro my company's landing page for the past year or so [0]. We write blog posts in Notion and port them right to the site and the experience has been fantastic. There are a few understanding quirks with regard to using React etc within Astro (it's SSR'd unless you add the "client" attribute, and counter-intuitively the Component Lifecycle doesn't run the same). For client landing pages, we'll use Astro too…
Netlify recently changed their pricing structure, so if you are using Netlify CMS (or just Netlify Identity) with a private repo, every contributor to the repository (committer) will be charged as full pro seat. This can get really expensive if you have a few users working with the CMS (and thus committing content to the repository). We will move a few pages from Netlify now because of this change.
Also, found out the hard way that "Enterprise" pricing (i.e. call us and we'll charge you an opaque amount based on whatever we think you can afford pricing) starts at 7 users.
Vercel is not much better at 10 users, and they hide it deep within their pricing table behind a tooltip so you're not likely to realize this until it's too late.
Cloudflare Pages doesn't charge per user but limits concurrent builds which can get really painful.
I honestly can't find a good option in this space anymore... What happened?
Re: Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
#18I'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…
The one thing I like about Astro is the component island UI. With react you would need to re-render the entire UI on a UI change while in Astro you can signify which portions of your website are static and which dynamically should re-render upon data fetching or whatever.
It's just a faster way to build UI's that don't need the full complexity of a SPA and also don't need to come bundled with the entirety of react from what I've seen and used it for.
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#19Serious question: Why does Astro need a custom file format?
The format looks identical to MDX
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#20I'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…
It's interesting their blog post doesn't mention some of the benefits. Neither does the doc page you linked—at least it doesn't do it succinctly.
Essentially Astro lets you build sites using a JS framework like React or Vue without requiring that framework to be loaded on the frontend. By default, components are just HTML content. Super nice for building very fast static sites using a technology you may already be fluent in.
You can still add interactivity to components if you'd like—just tag components that require interactivity and Astro will bundle the requisite JS for the client.