How It Works

Astro

Astro is an excellent framework for static site generation. It emphasizes speed and flexibility. Since websites can be incrementally rebuilt at-will when content changes, why not use static files?

”Why not React?”

React is, at this juncture, the default web framework. It’s excellent and I use it every day and have for many years. It can absolutely be used for a static website and I explored that, but found Astro to be a lot of fun to work with. React was fundamentally created to make interactive apps while Astro was fundamentally created to make contentful sites. Since I enjoy learning and believe in using the best tool for the job, why not try Astro?

”Why not WordPress?”

WordPress still manages a large chunk of internet content and I have had a lot of experience with it. We probably wouldn’t have all of the modern tooling and content management without the influence of WordPress. There are solutions to decouple WordPress as a content management system from the content presentation, but for a personal site, I wanted a system that did not require anything beyond static file hosting and which sufficiently included content separation as a built-in feature.