Getting Started With Astro

Astro is an open-source web development framework that combines server and client rendering, offering a versatile approach to building web applications. It supports popular UI frameworks like React, Vue, Preact, and Svelte, and is designed to optimize load times by prerendering pages on the server and delivering minimal JavaScript to the client. This approach enables Astro to create fast, SEO-friendly websites suitable for content-first projects such as blogs and marketing sites. The framework is UI agnostic, allowing developers to use any UI framework or none at all, and it features an island architecture that facilitates the mixing of static, server-rendered, and client-rendered components. Astro also offers a templating engine that resembles HTML, making it easy to learn, and includes essential features like Markdown support, top-level awaits, and ESM includes. With its flexibility in deployment through various platforms like Netlify, Firebase, and Vercel, Astro has gained significant popularity, reflected in its rapid growth on GitHub.