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Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott
Published 3 years, 2 months ago
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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott about all things Astro v2.0. What is Astro and why should you use it? How do islands work? Images, edge, AI, error overlays, hybrid rendering, and more!
Show Notes- 00:40 Welcome
- 01:08 Guest introduction
- FredKSchott.com
- @Fredkschott on Twitter
- Fred on GitHub
- 02:17 What is Astro and why should someone use it?
- 04:57 What can you build with Astro?
- 06:11 What’s an island in content?
- 09:43 How do routes work with Astro?
- 12:30 How is Markdown handled in Astro?
- mdxjs
- 14:32 How does Astro work on the edge?
- 18:15 How does Astro v2 handle data fetching?
- 23:25 Integrations with Astro
- 26:38 Astro AI bot?
- AI Langchain
- 30:40 Error overlay design
- 36:10 What are some of the most important upgrades in v2?
- 37:18 Hybrid rendering
- 40:27 Astro’s image component
- Squoosh
- 44:39 What happened to snowpack? Pikapkg?
- 46:48 What is the financial model for Astro?
- 50:28 Supper Club questions
- Obsidian
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- Wes’ Instagram
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- Scott’s Twitter
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