Developing Astro with Gitpod
From a 7 year-old Chromebook to an Android tablet to a Linux desktop… all my building with Astro is done in a cloud development environment thanks to Gitpod! No local development environment? No problem!
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10 posts with the tag “astro”
Astro's Community-Driven Docs
What community-driven means to Astro Docs.
Doc'ing the Docs!
A brief history of what’s been going on in the Astro docs.
React to XElement in Astro: sBird to xBird
aFuzzyBear and I have started a community, build-in-public project where we take my React-in-Astro sBird app and recreate all the same functionality using XElement, natively in Astro! The first video is now up on YouTube.
Creating an Astro layout - screencast and transcript
This is a screencast and transcript of refactoring one of the basic Astro examples to create an initial BaseLayout component.
Creating individual tag pages in Astro via dynamic routes
Now that I’m on a roll with dynamic routing via getStaticPaths() in Astro, I’m checking the next item off my Astro blog wish list: pages to display blog posts by tag.
Thinking in Astro, Coming from React
Astro sites allow you to use React, but they aren’t React, themselves. Understanding the differences between React and Astro can help you get started more quickly, so here are some thoughts on how to think like an Astro-naut!
Getting started with React components in Astro
Yes, you can write and render your React components in your Astro page. But remember, Astro isn’t React, and you might be getting error messages when you totally know your React component should work. It’s not complicated to establish the Astro-React relationship, but you might not be used to doing these things…
Astro is a learner's paradise!
One of Astro’s selling points has been that you can bring your own mix-and-match components… but I didn’t really get the power of that as a learner until just now, listening to Fred K. Schott interviewed on devtools.fm
Rewriting a React Component as an Astro Component
I’d been using a lot of components in my Astro blog, but I realized that they were almost all React components, because that’s what I know. So, I wanted to try reproducing some functionality by replacing a React component with a corresponding Astro component.
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