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

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npm install astro@shhhhh

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

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

Then run:

npm run dev

To configure Astro, add a astro.config.mjs file in the root of your project. All of the options can be omitted. Here are the defaults:

export default {
  /** Where to resolve all URLs relative to. Useful if you have a monorepo project. */
  projectRoot: '.',
  /** Path to Astro components, pages, and data */
  astroRoot: './astro',
  /** When running `astro build`, path to final static output */
  dist: './_site',
  /** A folder of static files Astro will copy to the root. Useful for favicons, images, and other files that don‘t need processing. */
  public: './public',
  /** Extension-specific handlings */
  extensions: {
    /** Set this to "preact" or "react" to determine what *.jsx files should load */
    '.jsx': 'react',
  },
};

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 /> will render an HTML-only version of MyComponent (default)
• <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

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>

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)

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.

Astro can be configured to use Tailwind easily! Install the dependencies:

npm install @tailwindcss/jit tailwindcss

And also create a tailwind.config.js in your project root:

module.exports = {
  // your options here
}

Note: a Tailwind config file is currently required to enable Tailwind in Astro, even if you use the default options.

Then write Tailwind in your project just like you‘re used to:

<style>
  @tailwind base;
  @tailwind components;
  @tailwind utilities;
</style>

Astro’s Collections API is useful for grabbing collections of content. Currently only *.md files are supported.

// pages/blog.astro
---
import PostPreview from '../components/PostPreview.astro';

const blogPosts = import.meta.collections('./post/*.md');
---

<main>
  <h1>Blog Posts</h1>
  {blogPosts.map((post) => (
    <PostPreview post={post} />
  )}
</main>

This will load all markdown files located in /pages/post/*.md, compile them into an array, then expose them to the page.

If you were to inspect the array, you‘d find the following schema:

const blogPosts = [
  {
    content: string, // Markdown converted to HTML
    // all other frontmatter data
  },
  // …
];

All of the following options are supported under the 2nd parameter of import.meta.collections():

const collection = import.meta.collections('./post/*.md', {
  /** If `page` is omitted, all results are returned */
  page: 1, // ⚠️ starts at 1, not 0
  /** How many items should be returned per-page (ignored if `page` is missing; default: 25) */
  perPage: 25,
  /** How items should be sorted (default: no sort) */
  sort(a, b) {
    return new Date(b.date) - new Date(a.date); // sort newest first, by `date` in frontmatter
  }
  /** Should items be filtered by their frontmatter data? */
  filter(post) {
    return post.tag === 'movie'; // (optional) only return posts tagged "movie"
  }
});

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.