Astro

Astro is a web framework built around a simple idea: send the browser mostly HTML, and only the JavaScript a page genuinely needs. Where many modern frameworks ship a large bundle and rebuild the page in the browser, Astro renders to static HTML at build time and keeps interactivity confined to small, independent islands.

For content-driven sites, that default is a major advantage. Pages are fast, Core Web Vitals scores are high out of the box, and search engines receive clean, server-rendered markup. Editors can still use a CMS behind the scenes, and developers get a comfortable, component-based workflow.

It is the framework we reach for most often, including for this site, and the destination for our WordPress-to-Astro migrations. It is not suited to heavily app-like, logged-in products, but for marketing and content sites it is hard to beat on speed.