Missing features and bugs are still to be expected at this early stage. This post marks the first public beta release of Astro. SEO Enabled: Automatic sitemaps, RSS feeds, pagination and collections take the pain out of SEO and syndication.Fully-Featured: Astro supports TypeScript, Scoped CSS, CSS Modules, Sass, Tailwind, Markdown, MDX, and any of your favorite npm packages.If the user never sees it, they never load it. On-Demand Components: Need some JS? Astro can automatically hydrate interactive components when they become visible on the page.100% Static HTML, No JS: Astro renders your entire page to static HTML, removing all JavaScript from your final build by default.Bring Your Own Framework (BYOF): Build your site using React, Svelte, Vue, Preact, web components, or just plain ol’ HTML + JavaScript.To design Astro, we borrowed the best parts of our favorite tools and then added a few innovations of our own, including: Today I’m excited to publicly share Astro: a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience. More JavaScript, more features, more moving parts, and ultimately more complexity needed to keep it all running smoothly. Unfortunately, modern web development has been trending in the opposite direction-towards more.
There’s a simple secret to building a faster website - just ship less.
