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Why we switched to Astro (and why it might interest you)

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This is part one of an ongoing series on moving our website to Astro! Here's what we've put together so far: Chapter 1: Why we switched to Astro (and why it might interest you) Chapter 2: Astro, GraphQL and DatoCMS Cache Tags: how we built the killer combo Chapter 3: Astro, Sitemaps, SEO, and Best Practices Chapter 4: Cooking If everything went according to plan, no one should have noticed anything. But for a few days now, this site has been completely new. We took our old Next 13 site and completely rewrote it in Astro! 🧑‍🚀🚀 Not only that: we also moved from the classic Vercel hosting to a completely server-side rendering approach on a VPS, which allows our team an editing experience with immediate feedback, combined with a blazing-fast CDN for the website visitors. Astro was a bet. We didn't know it well enough to be sure everything would go as expected. But the result was a complete success from every perspective, and the development experience was extremely educational and — not

length in draft mode --> Why we switched to Astro (and why it might interest you) The DatoCMS Blog Why we switched to Astro (and why it might interest you) Posted on December 3rd, 2024 by Stefano Verna Copy page Copy Markdown link View as Markdown Open in ChatGPT Open in Claude This is part one of an ongoing series on moving our website to Astro! Here's what we've put together so far: Chapter 1: Why we switched to Astro (and why it might interest you) Chapter 2: Astro, GraphQL and DatoCMS Cache Tags: how we built the killer combo Chapter 3: Astro, Sitemaps, SEO, and Best Practices Chapter 4: C

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