Welcome to Understanding Astro!
This book is the ultimate guide to Astro, the next-gen web framework designed for speed 🚀
Understanding Astro is the result of spending months digging into Astro and conveying the results in a practical and easy-to-understand fashion.
If you want to understand Astro, you've come to the right source.
Don't just learn another framework. Understand it.
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✨ Table of contents ✨
The following is a detailed table of contents for Understanding Astro.
Introduction
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Don't be displeased
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Differences to the official documentation
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How the book is structured
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Chapters overview
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Prerequisites
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Typographic conventions
Chapter 1: Build your first Astro Application
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What you’ll learn
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Project Overview
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Getting started
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Project structure
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Introduction to Astro pages
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Anatomy of an Astro component
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Component styles
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Page layouts
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Rendering components and slots
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Capitalising component names
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The global style directive
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Custom fonts and global CSS
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Independent Astro components
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Adding interactive scripts
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Interactive theme toggle
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The :global() selector
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Event Handling
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Theming via CSS variables
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Accessing global client objects
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The magic of scripts
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Leveraging inline scripts
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Global selectors in scripts
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Markdown pages
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Navigating between pages
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Markdown layouts
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Composing layouts
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Component props
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Leveraging markdown frontmatter properties
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Interactive navigation state
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Component composition
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The template flow of data
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The dark side of define:vars
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Loading multiple local files
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Deploying a static Astro site
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How fast is our Astro website?
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Conclusion
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Chapter 2: Astro Components In-depth
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What you’ll learn
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Introduction
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The backbone of Astro
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What is an Astro component?
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Astro components can leverage a powerful templating syntax
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Conclusion
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Chapter 3: Build Your Own Component Island
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What you’ll learn
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A brief history of how we got here
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A partial hydration islands architecture implementation
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Conclusion
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Chapter 4: The Secret Life of Astro Component Islands
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What you’ll learn
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How islands work in Astro
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Responsible hydration
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Using multiple frameworks
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Sharing state between component islands
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Passing props and children to framework components
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Nested framework components
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Astro Island gotchas
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Why islands?
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Conclusion
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Chapter 5: Oh my React! (React documentation site clone)
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What you’ll learn
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Set up the starter project
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Installing dependencies
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Styling Astro projects with Tailwind
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Typescript import alias
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Islands & colocating page components
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Syntax highlighting
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Getting Started with Content Collections
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Query and render content collections
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Dynamic routing
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Generate routes with content collections
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MDX components
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Integration spotlight: Astro SEO
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Custom 404 pages in Astro
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Conclusion
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Chapter 6: Server-side Rendering (SSR) in Astro
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What you’ll learn
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When do you need SSR?
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How to Enable SSR
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Deploying an SSR project
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Use the correct adapter
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SSR with static pages
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From Request to Response
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Environment variables
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Dynamic routes
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Server endpoints
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Streams, oh streams
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Conclusion
Chapter 7: Be Audible! (Fullstack Astro Project)
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What you’ll learn
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Project setup
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Project overview
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Technology choices
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Backend setup
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Handling authentication
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Implementing protected pages
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Cloud storage setup
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Uploading audio recordings
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Fetching data from the server
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Submitting HTML forms
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Conclusion
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Chapter 8: Build Your Own Astro Integrations
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What you’ll learn
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Astro and Vite
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What are Astro integrations
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Hello world. Sorry, Hello, Integration
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The Astro hooks lifecycle
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Build a default prerender integration
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Building renderers and library Integrations
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Conclusion
Conclusion
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License
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