astro/docs/index.md

layout	title
~/layouts/Main.astro	Start Here

What is Astro?

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.

With Astro, you can use your favorite JavaScript framework and automatically ship the bare-minimum amount of JavaScript—by default, it's none at all!

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

Important: Astro is built with ESM modules which are not supported in older version of Node.js. The minimum supported version is 14.16.1.

# create your project
mkdir new-project-directory
cd new-project-directory
npm init astro

# install your dependencies
npm install

# start the dev server and open your browser
npm start

🚀 Build & Deployment

The default Astro project has the following scripts in the /package.json file:

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

For local development, run:

npm run start

To build for production, run the following command:

npm run build

To deploy your Astro site to production, upload the contents of /dist to your favorite static site host.