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Astro

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Astro is a modern frontend framework designed for building fast, content-driven websites. It allows you to use your favorite UI components (React, Vue, Svelte, etc.) and renders them to HTML at build time, resulting in zero JavaScript runtime by default. This approach leads to incredibly fast load times and excellent performance scores.

Core Features

  • Island Architecture: Ship less JavaScript by rendering UI to static HTML and only hydrating interactive components.
  • UI Framework Agnostic: Use React, Preact, Svelte, Vue, Solid, Lit, or just plain HTML + JavaScript.
  • Fast by Default: Astro generates static HTML at build time, resulting in faster load times and better SEO.
  • Content-focused: Built with content-rich websites like blogs, marketing sites, and documentation in mind.
  • Developer Experience: Great tooling, clear documentation, and a vibrant community.

Getting Started

  1. Installation: Create a new Astro project with npm create astro@latest.
  2. Project Setup: Choose a template or start from scratch.
  3. Development: Start the development server with npm run dev.
  4. Components: Build your UI with your favorite framework components.
  5. Deployment: Deploy your static site to any hosting provider.
  • Hugo : A popular static site generator that shares similar goals of performance and content-driven websites.

Projects using Astro

  • Astro Starlight : The documentation website builder that makes creating stellar docs effortless.

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Astro Starlight

Astro Starlight

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Astro Starlight is a full-featured documentation theme built on top of the Astro framework. It provides everything you need to build a beautiful, high-performance documentation website with a great authoring experience.

Core Features

  • Markdown & MDX Support: Write content using standard Markdown or leverage the power of MDX to include interactive components.
  • Search: Built-in search functionality that indexes your content for easy navigation.
  • Internationalization (i18n): Support for multiple languages to reach a global audience.
  • SEO-friendly: Automatic sitemaps, and other features to ensure your documentation is discoverable.
  • Easy Configuration: A simple starlight.config.ts file to customize your site.

Getting Started

  1. Installation: Create a new Starlight project with bun create astro --template starlight.
  2. Project Setup: Configure your site in starlight.config.ts.
  3. Development: Start the development server with bun dev.
  4. Content: Add your content in the src/content/docs directory.
  5. Deployment: Deploy your site to any static hosting provider.
  • Astro : The underlying framework that powers Starlight, designed for building fast, content-driven websites.
  • Hugo : A popular static site generator known for its speed and flexibility, often used for similar documentation purposes.

Projects using Astro Starlight

  • Astro Starlight Demo : A demo project showcasing the ease of getting started with Astro Starlight for building modern websites.

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Hugo

Hugo

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Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. Written in Go, it’s renowned for its incredible speed and flexibility, making it an ideal choice for building blogs, portfolios, documentation, and more. Hugo takes your content written in Markdown and transforms it into a complete static website in milliseconds.

Core Features

  • Blazing Fast Build Times: Generate thousands of pages in seconds.
  • Markdown Support: Write content in Markdown, a simple and widely used markup language.
  • Theming System: Highly customizable themes to control the look and feel of your site.
  • Shortcodes: Extend Markdown with custom shortcodes for dynamic content.
  • LiveReload: Instant feedback during development with automatic browser refreshing.
  • Asset Bundling: Optimize CSS, JavaScript, and images for production.

Getting Started

  1. Installation: Install Hugo on your system (available for Windows, macOS, Linux).
  2. New Site: Create a new Hugo site with hugo new site my-site.
  3. Add Theme: Choose and add a theme to your site.
  4. Add Content: Create new content files in Markdown format.
  5. Development: Run hugo server -D to preview your site locally.
  6. Deployment: Generate your static site with hugo and deploy the public directory to any web server.

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