Why I'll choose Astro (almost) every time in 2024

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Chapters:
0:00 Astro solves a big problem
0:53 The web is *mostly* static content
2:37 Astro is "just in time" where Next et al. are "just in case"
4:01 One codebase for all your web properties
5:20 Astro is the most flexible framework available today

[hcx]

Cool to watch Like Button group in the video control bar light up as Jason says 'Like Button' in the video.
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[aldoxo]

This is THE way you explain things! Thanks for such great content Jason

[yucelmutlusoy]

Astro is freaking awesome, they definitely spotted an underserved segment. Congrats and many thanks 👍

[rheavictor]

Dude you I just got to your channel after studying more about Astro (I'm designing my first landing page on it to test it), and what an amazing explanation. Thank you so much for how you put things clearly, straight to the point but given important context. Thanks.

[aschmelyun]

First video I’ve seen on Astro that really made me want to try it out. Great work!

[JEsterCW]

Astro to me is the most revolutionary technology in web/front ecosystem, it's really unique and it acts like: *"Do whatever you wan to, I'm here to support you no matter what"* when in other cases you always have tons of rules or limits and astro is incredibly open-minded and flexbile + tons of configurations. The fact that we can mix react component with other tools components in one place without any headache is crazy to me cuz we can build specific part of our project in react, other one in vue and the 3rd one in plain html css and we can mix it together and it gives me such a huge microfrontends vibes, altho i dont use astro on daily basis, it's my favourite technology in web/frontend ecosystem and next to it stays tailwind and alpine, really lovely, but I'm kinda scared that vercel will destroy astro somehow, anyways i cant wait what more will come from astro, its defo the default pick for any web, especially static one, no reason to use plain vite with css and html, it doesnt makes sense when we got astro and we can build components, layouts and other stuff, amazing!

[vkffgrx]

Very well explained. Hugo and Gatsby was the reason I never went with the static site generators. But pushed me into wp, and got me to play around with grav then publii. I’m really looking forward to digging into Astro.

[AntonEmery]

I've been rebuilding a website in Astro, and loving it so far. Will definitely check out your course.

[jay.jarosz]

This is the best and also the most concise explanation of Astro I've seen, thank you!

[codewithguillaume]

That is a very good to watch Jason, thanks.

I totally understand your point of view — I think right now, in dev's mind, Astro is just made for static, not dynamic. They communicated so much on this, that it's good to make clear you can do DYNAMIC with Astro (hybrid mode).

[blazed-space]

I used to use Next JS a lot, but I have recently switched to Astro and I think Astro is actually better at this point.

[naranyala_dev]

Just a few years from the first version, it revolutionized. Imagine five years from now, even ten years from now

[TheRichNuke]

Astro became the thing I was needed for a long time

[davidsiewert]

Everything you said applies for Qwik as well
* It ships nearly zero JS by default (same as in astro, because if you have a dark mode toggle -> it needs to execute JS before rendering to prevent a white flash)
* It can be used for content heavy sites
* It is even better in a way, where it only ships JS then clicking/hovering a button
* But I quess its a little more complex

[rahulbismarck]

5:47 I posted a screenshot of your statement on my instagram today, with a note telling me to look back at it in 5 years. I'm pretty sure you're right.

I'm using Astro to create a SSR blog, it was very easy with dynamic routes and content collection. It's even better with Astro's image optimization and view-transitions API.

[JLarky]

Important part that was shipped in Astro 3 is that now you get HMR in React 🤯

[clarkio]

💯 such a great explanation of this space and advice for folks. Thanks for this video 👍

[jo.maendle]

Love it! I'm also a huge fan of Astro 🌟

[sahilahmed]

I like astro because, every html i drop into the apps folder it works its the best and timeless js framework that ships html first 🥇!