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Astro is a modern site builder with web best practices, performance, and DX front-of-mind.
Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed.
Pull your content from anywhere and deploy everywhere, all powered by your favorite UI components and libraries.
# Recommended!
npm create astro@latest
# Manual:
npm install --save-dev astro
Looking for help? Start with our Getting Started guide.
Looking for quick examples? Open a starter project right in your browser.
Visit our official documentation.
Having trouble? Get help in the official Astro Discord.
New contributors welcome! Check out our Contributors Guide for help getting started.
Join us on Discord to meet other contributors. We'll help you get your first contribution in no time!
Astro is generously supported by Vercel, storyblok, and several other amazing organizations listed here.
Next.js is a popular React framework for building server-side rendered and static web applications. It offers a rich set of features like API routes, dynamic routing, and built-in CSS support. Compared to Astro, Next.js is more focused on server-side rendering and full-stack capabilities.
Gatsby is a React-based framework for building static sites and apps. It emphasizes performance and scalability, offering a rich plugin ecosystem and GraphQL data layer. While Gatsby is similar to Astro in terms of static site generation, it is more tightly coupled with React and has a steeper learning curve.
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator that focuses on flexibility and minimalism. It supports multiple templating languages and is highly configurable. Unlike Astro, Eleventy does not have built-in support for modern JavaScript frameworks like React or Vue.
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Astro is a modern site builder with web best practices, performance, and DX front-of-mind.
The npm package astro receives a total of 387,729 weekly downloads. As such, astro popularity was classified as popular.
We found that astro demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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