Rebuilding the blog with Astro was a remarkably smooth experience. Let’s explore the reasons why I decidade to make the move to Astro.
Content Focused
Astro was designed for building content-rich websites. This includes most marketing sites, publishing sites, documentation sites, blogs, portfolios, and some ecommerce sites.
My previous experience with Next.js showed me that it is more of an app-focused framework. The fact that it uses React as the default library and ships HTML with redundant JavaScript gave me another reason for migration.
Fast by default
Good performance is always important, but it is especially critical for content-focused websites. It has been well-proven that poor performance loses you engagement, conversions, and money.
Astro showcases incredible comparisons on their website, so it piqued my interest to give it a try and verify if it’s a impressive as they claim.
Astro 4.0
It was one of the main reasons. The features that were introduced were so exciting to try, and the actual experience turned out to be incredibly smooth. Let me highlight some of them.
View transitions
In modern web development, it’s still challenging to manage view transitions, particularly for statically generated publications. However, after the introduction of the ViewTransitions API in Chromium-based browsers, this task has become more manageable.