Astro with Elian Van Cutsem

The Developers' Bakery

In this episode of The Developers’ Bakery, we explore Astro, the modern web framework, with Elian Van Cutsem, one of its maintainers. Elian will walk us through Astro’s content-first approach, how it compares to other web frameworks, and its support for server-side/hybrid rendering.

We also dive into Astro’s governance model and the challenges of maintaining an open-source project at this scale. Elian will also share his insights on the latest Astro 5 release and what’s next for the project.

Finally, we chat about FOSDEM! We’ll share some of our personal anecdotes from the conference which just happened in Brussels, so you don’t want to miss this episode!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.46 Episode Start
• 01.07 Elian’s Introduction
• 01.58 What is Astro?
• 03.16 What does it mean to be content-first?
• 05.41 Astro’s main use case
• 06.28 Astro vs other static-site-generator
• 07.37 Server side rendering with Astro
• 10.15 Hybrid Rendering
• 11.01 The Island architecture
• 12.57 Astro’s performances
• 14.45 Where do you deploy your applications?
• 16.00 Astro success stories
• 19.41 Astro’s governance model
• 23.03 How did you feel when you became a maintainer?
• 24.08 Maintainers vs Core team member
• 25.40 The biggest challenge of maintaining Astro
• 29.09 Getting funding
• 31.17 What’s new in Astro 5?
• 33.35 What’s next for Astro?
• 35.26 What brings you to FOSDEM?
• 36.48 FOSDEM vibe and anecdotes
• 40.54 Further reading
• 43.41 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• withastro/astro on GitHub
• Astro Official Website
• Mentioned Resources:
  • Getting Started with Astro
  • Astro Themes Gallery
  • Astro Studio - All Secrets Reveiled - Video from React Alicante
• @ElianCodes on GitHub
• @ElianCodes on Twitter

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