**Astro** is a _fresh but familiar_ approach to building websites. Astro combines decades of proven performance best practices with the DX improvements of the component-oriented era. Use your favorite JavaScript framework and automatically ship the bare-minimum amount of JavaScript—by default.
### [Announcement Post →](https://astro.build/blog/introducing-astro)
### [Full Documentation Site →](https://docs.astro.build/)
## Project Status
⚠️ **Astro is still an early beta, missing features and bugs are to be expected!** If you can stomach it, then Astro-built sites are production ready and several production websites built with Astro already exist in the wild. We will update this note once we get closer to a stable, v1.0 release.
## Quick Start
```bash
# get started with astro in 3 easy steps:
mkdir new-project-directory
cd new-project-directory
npm init astro
```
### [Full Documentation Site →](https://docs.astro.build/)
