Today we’re kicking off an exciting launch week together with Astro by announcing our new partnership.
- Monday: Astro’s Official Deployment Partner Announcement
- Tuesday: Announcing Durable Caching
- Wednesday: Why Netlify selected Astro for its developer hub and marketing site
- Thursday: How Astro’s server islands deliver progressive rendering for your sites
- Friday: Introducing the Netlify Frameworks API
To kick off the week, we’re excited to reveal our partnership with Astro. Now, as their Official Deployment Partner, we’re further funding development of their open source framework to deliver better collaboration, more features, and an even better experience for Astro developers on Netlify. Additionally, we’ll be announcing several new core primitives from both Netlify and Astro this week, aimed at making the whole web ecosystem stronger.
Astro has long been one of my own favorite web frameworks and I’ve built countless PoC’s, demos, experiments, and examples with it. Last year we shared that Astro was the leader in framework growth and satisfaction according to the results of our 2023 State of Web Development report.
At a time when the most popular Jamstack frameworks evolved from simpler origins to very complex systems, with countless rendering modes, complex JavaScript hydration models, complicated caching modes, and a stronger and stronger sense of vendor lock-in, Astro has been a breath of fresh air with its focus on simplicity and content-driven websites.
It was the first framework to popularize the idea of island architecture, where islands are interactive widgets floating in a sea of otherwise static, lightweight, server-rendered HTML.
Astro leans in on the web platform, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and doesn’t prescribe any specific component system or UI framework for the interactive islands. You can use React, Vue, Lit, Solid, Svelte, or even mix and match libraries as you see fit. This flexibility is tremendously valuable and provides developers with options to build against their own needs and goals.
Astro is an exceptional framework for content-driven sites (with any level of interactivity) and makes is easy to build incredibly performant sites. It’s also a delight to work with!
We predict that this will turn Astro into one of the top frameworks in the years to come, and we’re excited to partner to build a better web.
Stay tuned for our launches all week!
