Introducing a new framework can be challenging, especially when developers are loyal to old favorites. But Astro 1.0 is bridging the gap between old and new by staying compatible and familiar with other frameworks.
Nate Moore, an engineer at Astro Technology Company and core maintainer on Astro has been working on Astro 1.0 for 16 months. His major focus was launching a new web framework that is sustainable and future-proof. Astro 1.0 is targeted at devs building content-based websites and is compatible with most frameworks out there.
In this episode, Nate talks with Robbie and Chuck about the launch of Astro 1.0, its compatibility with other frameworks, frameworks that inspired Astro, and Nate’s life goal of visiting every national park.

Key Takeaways

[00:49] - A quick intro to Nate.

[01:36] - A whisky review - Laws Centennial Straight Wheat Whiskey 4 Year.

[09:59] - What is Astro?

[23:24] - What are the new features in Astro 1.0?

[30:32] - Web components Nate has used.

[42:10] - The challenges with monorepos.

[44:41] - Nate’s life goal of visiting every national park.


Quotes
[12:11] - “I think the ecosystem just goes in circles. But it is funny to see people come into the ecosystem and be like, where's your link component? It's like that's just an anchor tag. You don't need a component.” - @n_moore
[22:39] - “I heard somebody recently described Vite as the United Nations of JavaScript. Everybody is building on top of Vite now, and it's just really cool to see because if you hit a bug and you upstream a fix, then everybody is going to benefit from that, and people are really taking it in a lot of different ways.” - @n_moore
[27:39] - “I think people are really spoiled by how much investment like Microsoft has made into TypeScript and just like all the tooling around that stuff. It is so much work to get your own language up and running.” - @n_moore

Links

Nate Moore Twitter

Astro Twitter

Astro

NASA

Law Whiskey Centennial Wheat Whiskey

1787 Coworking Space

JavaScript

React

HTML

JSX

Stack Overflow

JQuery

Svelte

Solid

Vue

Ryan Carniato Twitter

Redwood

Remix

React Router

NextJS

Ember

Glimmer

Snowpack

Skypack

Vite

Markdown

Netlify

Vercel

Discord

Microsoft

TypeScript

Stencil

Fred K. Schott LinkedIn

Fred K. Schott Twitter

Polymer

Google

Lit

Backbone 

Nuxt

Node

Deno

Monorepo

PNPM

Yarn

Lerna

Great Smokey Mountains National Park

Buffalo Trace Distillery 

Grand Canyon National Park

Glacier National Park

Zion National Park

Yellow Stone National Park

Grand Tetons National Park

Badlands National Park

Theodor Roosevelt National Park

Bearizona Wildlife Park

Sonos

TRNTBL


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Chuck Carpenter

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