Getting Started with Astro

Astro is a fantastic choice for content-heavy sites like blogs and portfolios. Here are a few things I’ve learned getting started.

Content Collections

Use src/content.config.ts to define your content schemas. Astro 6 uses the Content Layer API with loaders like glob() and file().

Islands Architecture

You only ship JavaScript for interactive components. Everything else is static HTML. This makes for incredibly fast pages.

Markdown is First-Class

Markdown files with frontmatter work out of the box. Define a schema once and get type safety across all your posts.