Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
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Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
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Re: Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
#2I misread the title and was quite confused about when the F* programming language connection will take a stage in the article. Spoiler alert: it never does, because the title doesn't make a reference to the F* programming language :D
Re: Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
#3> Traditional frameworks hydrate entire pages with JavaScript. Even if you've got a simple blog post with one interactive widget, the whole page gets the JavaScript treatment. Astro flips this on its head. Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands."
I guess I'd argue "Traditional Frameworks" were the ones that never stopped doing this. Laravel, Django, Rails etc. Then the SPA frameworks came along and broke everything.
Also - what on earth is "f*"? I originally assumed it was shorthand for "fuck" but is "fuck dream" a common expression? And wouldn't you normally write it as "f***"?
Re: Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
#4> Traditional frameworks hydrate entire pages with JavaScript. Even if you've got a simple blog post with one interactive widget, the whole page gets the JavaScript treatment. Astro flips this on its head. Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands." I guess I'd argue "Traditional Frameworks" were the ones that never stopped doing this. Laravel, Django,…
> Also - what on earth is "f"? I originally assumed it was shorthand for "fuck" but is "fuck dream" a common expression? And wouldn't you normally write it as "f*"
I would thinking F**ing, to delve deeper into the meta discussion
Re: Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
#5> Traditional frameworks hydrate entire pages with JavaScript. Even if you've got a simple blog post with one interactive widget, the whole page gets the JavaScript treatment. Astro flips this on its head. Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands." I guess I'd argue "Traditional Frameworks" were the ones that never stopped doing this. Laravel, Django,…
I'm reminded of the fat client vs thin client pendulum. Everything old is new agian.
Re: Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
#6> Traditional frameworks hydrate entire pages with JavaScript. Even if you've got a simple blog post with one interactive widget, the whole page gets the JavaScript treatment. Astro flips this on its head. Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands." I guess I'd argue "Traditional Frameworks" were the ones that never stopped doing this. Laravel, Django,…
I've replaced the submitted title ("Astro is a developers f* dream") with a representative sentence from the article.
Re: Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
#7I misread the title and was quite confused about when the F* programming language connection will take a stage in the article. Spoiler alert: it never does, because the title doesn't make a reference to the F* programming language :D
I'm still a bit dumbfounded, what is the F* a reference to if not the language? Maybe just a typo for some other abbreviation?
Re: Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
#8I misread the title and was quite confused about when the F* programming language connection will take a stage in the article. Spoiler alert: it never does, because the title doesn't make a reference to the F* programming language :D
I'm still a bit dumbfounded, what is the F* a reference to if not the language? Maybe just a typo for some other abbreviation?
F$&@ing
Re: Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
#9I can only approve. To me Astro started as "it's just html and css but with includes."
I used it for my personal website, and recently used it when reimplementing the Matrix Conference website. It's really a no-fuss framework that is a joy to use.
Among the things I love about Astro:
- It's still html and css centric - Once built, it doesn't require js by default - You can still opt-into adding js for interactivity here and there - Content collections are neat and tidy - Astro massively optimizes for speed, and the maintainers know how to do it - It had a very helpful devbar to help you visually figure out what easy fix can make your website snappier (like lazily loading images if it detects them below the fold)
For the "optimize for speed" bit, an example is that the css minifier cleverly inlines some CSS to avoid additional queries. The Image component they provide will set the width and height attribute of an image to avoid content layout shifts. It will also generate responsive images for you.
Re: Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
#10> Traditional frameworks hydrate entire pages with JavaScript. Even if you've got a simple blog post with one interactive widget, the whole page gets the JavaScript treatment. Astro flips this on its head. Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands."
Back in my days we called this "progressive enhancements" (or even just "web pages"), and was basically the only way we built websites with a bit of dynamic behavior. Then SPAs were "invented", and "progressive enhancements" movement became something less and less people did.
Now it seems that is called JavaScript islands, but it's actually just good ol' web pages :) What is old is new again.
Bit of history for the new webdevs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement