You probably know React itself is a UI library, not a full framework. Over time, developers built “meta-frameworks” or full…
To understand where Astro and 11ty stand today, it helps to look back a little at how we got here…
React originated at Facebook (Meta) circa 2011, formalized as open source in 2013. Its declarative component model, virtual DOM, and…
In the early web, nearly every site was static: hand-written HTML, CSS, maybe a little JavaScript. Over time, the demand…
In recent years, the “static site” paradigm (pre-rendering most pages at build time) has matured: frameworks now let you combine…
Astro is a modern web framework that ships less JavaScript by default and lets you mix UI islands from React,…