Let's talk about Astro – a new tool by the folks at Snowpack. I think it's pretty sweet, so sweet in fact that I finally got around to building my b

Why I built my blog with Astro

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2021-06-11 13:00:08

Let's talk about Astro – a new tool by the folks at Snowpack. I think it's pretty sweet, so sweet in fact that I finally got around to building my blog with it.

As I write this, Astro has freshly released its first public beta. Up until now access was invite-only, but now anyone can check out the repo and start tinkering.

I say tinkering because it's still early days for Astro. It's a tad bit quirky in terms of what you can and cannot do with it, features aren't fully fleshed out and every so often you'll run into bugs.

There's a lot to get excited about Astro, but I'll mainly be addressing things from the perspective of a frontend dev trying to make a blog using Astro.

It's just text. To display text, all I essentially need is HTML. I ruminate on this and wish that I was stoic enough to make an HTML-only blog and call it a day, thereby joining the league of true champions of web performance.

But, I'm weak. I want blogs to have some personality. The system font stack should've probably been enough but in my vanity I reach out for some webfonts. I then proceed to add some (a lot) of CSS to make things look pretty.