👩‍🚀 Astro

A next-generation static-site generator with partial hydration. Use your favorite JS framework and ship bare-minimum JS (or none at all!).

🔧 Setup

npm install astro

TODO: astro boilerplate

🧞 Development

Add a dev npm script to your /package.json file:

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "astro dev ."
  }
}

Then run:

npm run dev

💧 Partial Hydration

By default, Astro outputs zero client-side JS. If you'd like to include an interactive component in the client output, you may use any of the following techniques.

• MyComponent:load will render MyComponent on page load
• MyComponent:idle will use requestIdleCallback to render MyComponent as soon as main thread is free
• MyComponent:visible will use an IntersectionObserver to render MyComponent when the element enters the viewport

💅 Styling

If you‘ve used Svelte’s styles before, Astro works almost the same way. In any .astro file, start writing styles in a <style> tag like so:

<style>
.scoped {
  font-weight: bold;
}
</style>

<div class="scoped">I’m a scoped style</div>

Sass

Astro also supports Sass out-of-the-box; no configuration needed:

<style lang="scss">
@use "../tokens" as *;

.title {
  color: $color.gray;
}
</style>

<h1 class="title">Title</h1>

Supports:

• lang="scss": load as the .scss extension
• lang="sass": load as the .sass extension (no brackets; indent-style)

Autoprefixer

We also automatically add browser prefixes using Autoprefixer. By default, Astro loads the default values, but you may also specify your own by placing a Browserslist file in your project root.

🚀 Build & Deployment

Add a build npm script to your /package.json file:

{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "astro dev .",
    "build": "astro build ."
  }
}

Then run:

npm run build

Now upload the contents of /_site_ to your favorite static site host.