Astro 7.0

88 points | by saikatsg an hour ago

19 comments

  • Princesseuh 43 minutes ago

    I made the Rust compiler and the Rust Markdown pipeline (https://satteri.bruits.org) in this, let me know if you have any questions, glad to answer anything!

      ZeWaka 36 minutes ago

      How does Satteri compare to a standard library like marked (https://github.com/markedjs/marked)?

        Princesseuh 23 minutes ago

        It depends in what regards you mean, I have some benchmarks here if you'd like to take a look at those: https://github.com/Princesseuh/web-markdown-benchmark

        The TL;DR is that `marked` is very light, but a bit on the slower side compared to Sätteri and `markdown-it` (and its forks). I'm not sure how friendly the extensibility is, but Sätteri re-use the same AST format as the unified ecosystem, which might feel more friendly.

        Both good options, though!

      toddmorey 41 minutes ago

      Thanks for your work on this!

      BorisMelnik 33 minutes ago

      great job, that is a huge accomplishment.

      stronglikedan 28 minutes ago

      love the color scheme

      keepupnow 38 minutes ago

      For the good of humanity, I must ask... How much Claude? How much human?

  • matsemann 23 minutes ago

    I probably only use 1 % of Astro's features, but I like how it's enabled me to build static sides as back in the days, but with a build pipeline.

    So I can use components, reuse stuff, include stuff etc, basically what I would do with PHP back in the days, but now it spits out a compiled page I can host for cheap (often even free). And easy to add in some interactivity when needed. Like I render a list as a component, and very easy to ship some dynamic filtering on the frontend using the same code, but the content is still statically in the html, so served fast and good SEO.

  • microflash 37 minutes ago

    The switch to strict HTML compilation is just not cool, and actively prevents upgrading sites which need to deal with remote content that is not written in strict HTML.

    I also wish there could be a general purpose content processing API so I can plug a different format than markdown (such as typst)

  • stevoo 15 minutes ago

    I have been trying to convince my marketing department to replace there archaic wordpress with an Astro build with AstroCMS and markdown for there needs.

    I have build several sites using Astro 6, and i am finding the ease of building the sites amazing and exceptional in SEO as well.

      gigatree 9 minutes ago

      What’s AstroCMS?

  • fnoef 14 minutes ago

    I really really like Astro, but I'm either getting old or it's something else.

    I just recently updated my website to Astro 6 and now... there's Astro 7. Maybe by the time I update, Astro 8 will be a few weeks in the future.

      ulimn 9 minutes ago

      (As an outsider, ) I suspect it's because the Rust rewrite was big enough to bump the main version number.

        Princesseuh 6 minutes ago

        It was partially that, but mostly the Vite version with the Rolldown bundling etc. We typically always need to do a major whenever Vite releases one because it tends to impact us a lot compared to other frameworks for various reasons.

  • keepupnow an hour ago

    "The .astro compiler has been rewritten in Rust.".

    I'm personally awaiting the rewrite to assembly.

  • turkeyboi 2 minutes ago

    Exhausting