Astro 2.0 is launching new exciting features and it’s setting the bar for HTML frameworks. What makes Astro unique in web development and what are its future possibilities? 
Fred K. Schott, CEO of the Astro Technology Company, says it’s all in the framework’s content focus and island architecture. For Fred, the aim is to have a tool that's HTML-first but still sprinkles in interactivity and allows developers to bring in components from other frameworks. They focused on the problem of sending a full JavaScript application to power a mostly static site without sending a full JavaScript application to power a mostly static site. The attention to developer experience paid off and is one of the reasons Astro is creating waves in the developer community.
In this episode, Fred talks with Chuck and Robbie about how Astro uses an HTML-first approach to create content-focused websites, the latest features of Astro V2, and the trend of blindly using popular frameworks like React.

Key Takeaways

[00:21] - An introduction to Fred K. Schott.

[03:19] - A whiskey review: Pinhook: Artist Series Release No. 2 Whiskey Nicking.

[19:07] - The challenge of creating forms in Astro vs. other platforms.

[23:32] - React’s strengths and weaknesses.

[30:55] - What makes Astro unique?

[44:25] - Fred’s favorite HTML element.

[47:57] - Fred’s hobbies.


Quotes
[02:36] - “Someone once described Astro as the first web framework that’s HTML first without hating developers for not using HTML, and I always resonated with that.” ~ Fred K. Schott
[26:12] - “I think you can’t talk about React without talking about where the web was at that point. We had a template in two different code bases, two different languages, it was a mess. And that’s the world that React came in and kind of saved us from.” ~ Fred K. Schott
[31:38] - “What makes (Astro) unique is our content focus. We talked about, you have one Solid component that’s a form and otherwise a mainly static site, that’s exactly where Astro shines.” ~ Fred K. Schott

Links

Fred K. Schott

Fred K. Schott Twitter

Fred K. Schott LinkedIn

Astro

Astro Discord

Astro Twitter

Astro 2.0 Details

Astro Content Collections

Astro Hybrid Rendering

Jack Forge

Twitter

Hot Ones

Kent C. Dodds

Pinhook: Artist Series Release No. 2 Whiskey Nicking

Maker’s Mark Bourbon

React

Ember

YouTube

TikTok

SolidJS

Svelte

Tailwind

Josh Collinsworth

Facebook

JQuery

JSon

Vue

National Geographic

NBC

Ryan Carniato

Nuxt

Gatsby

The JS Party Podcast

WordPress

Next JS

Second Life

SimCity

Ben and Jerry’s

Snowpack

Polymer

ChatGPT

Zach Leatherman

11ty

Netlify


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