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Introduction to Astro

Why Astro?

Astro is the web framework for content-driven websites.

Designed for blogs, marketing sites, documentation, and portfolios. It ships zero JavaScript to the client by default.

HTML is rendered on the server.

  • Benefit: Great performance and SEO out of the box.

No JavaScript runtime overhead to slow you down.

  • Benefit: Your site loads fast even on slow connections.

Bring your own UI framework.

  • Support: React, Svelte, Vue, Solid, Preact, Alpine, Lit… or just plain HTML+CSS.
Terminal window
npm create astro@latest

Follow the prompts and you will have a running site in minutes.