Astro

What is Astro?

Astro is a JS framework that focuses on simplicity and very fast websites. It's also pretty young; Fred K. Schott and Nate Moore created Astro in 2019.

It was built with static site creation in mind, so it's built to optimize page loading speeds and site visitor UX.

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Astro's Features

Pros:

• Astro builds static sites, and those static sites can be served as static HTML, CSS and JS files, which improves security and performance
• Astro can take content from all kinds of sources like APIs, CMS, MDX files, or Markdown files, and serve them on your site
• Astro uses modern syntax and features from the latest versions of JavaScript
• Astro has integrated performance optimizations like automatic resource preloading and code splitting
• Astro plays nice with other tools and frameworks like Tailwind, React and Vue
• Astro really excels in particular use cases where light builds are handy, like building developer blogs or docs

Cons:

• Some people feel there's not enough documentation or components
• And others say the use cases are a bit niche

Using Astro with OpsMaru

Building platforms for Astro apps is pretty straightforward with OpsMaru. The first stage with OpsMaru is selecting your infrastructure components and hooking them up. In the second stage, you'll be prompted to select the framework of the app you want to deploy on that platform and the app is configured. When you finish the third stage and are ready to deploy, OpsMaru will then containerize your Astro app and deploy it.