⚡refine.new - Introducing the Fastest Way to Create React Apps

Raúl Marín The huge advantage of astro is the island architecture, which gives a lot of flexibility. Astro is great for content rich apps, but you can also embed components by frameworks like react, svelte, lit, qwik, preact, solid and vue. You can also mix them.

All of that makes astro great for all sorts of apps.

Jak2k I understand Astro is amazing, but perhaps not the best tool for building the kind of web applications refine is targeting.

This is an extract from the Astro docs:

Astro was designed for building content-rich websites. This includes most marketing sites, publishing sites, documentation sites, blogs, portfolios, and some ecommerce sites.

By contrast, most modern web frameworks are designed for building web applications. These frameworks work best for building more complex, application-like experiences in the browser: logged-in admin dashboards, inboxes, social networks, todo lists, and even native-like applications like Figma and Ping.

This is one of the most important differences to understand about Astro. Astro’s unique focus on content lets Astro make tradeoffs and deliver unmatched performance features that wouldn’t make sense for more application-focused web frameworks to implement.

If your project falls into the second “application” camp, Astro might not be the right choice for your project… and that’s okay! Check out Next.js for a more application-focused alternative to Astro.

docs.astro.build/en/concepts/why-astro

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