Astro - a true polyglot framework for your next website
Opinion, Astro ・ Jun 29, 2023 ・ 1 min read
Next.js is the king of web development currenly (2023), with 4 mln daily downloads, if NPM Trends do not lie. It is de-facto a standart way of handeling React on the server and on the client, thanks to heavy efforts of Vercel marketing.
But are there any other options that do everything that Next.js does or even a little bit more? I decided to find an alternative (especially after a very cumbersome Next.js & React collaboration on promoting RSC) and I think I found it.
What as Astro
Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed. Pull your content from anywhere and deploy everywhere, all powered by your favorite UI components and libraries.
That’s what is written on their website.
In short, Astro:
- is a polyglot tool/framework that allows you to use any UI library (React, Vuew, Svelte, Solid, Qwik and etc.) to build interactivity
- has lots of plugins to integrate with different libraries
- helps to deploy your website on multiple platforms
- uses islands approach to handle interactive components and bundling (this means that your website bloated with js will load faster)