I'm an HTML & CSS web developer, my skills started in the 2010s with Bootstrap and have (purposely) stayed there. Yes, I know the advantages of React et al. but I have made a nice niche with my deliberately luddite-ish web development style. My brochure-site level business doesn't necessarily need the latest and greatest thing, as long as I don't skimp on security.
Until I read about Astro. I'm finally entering the 2020s and just starting to learn Astro. It's a bit daunting with my (intentional) gaps in skills but I'm finding my way.
I'm impressed with the speed and SEO capabilities out of the box. Using markdown is nice. And it meshes with the "next new big" thing when the time comes for me to venture out of the stone age. I'm on board.
What I like about Astro is the same as you, but coming from the opposite side. Day job is writing interactive web apps in react. When making some more static web pages on the side, it feels too much to use react and go the SPA route, especially if it should just be fast and easy to load, and friendly for search engine to crawl. But writing plain html&js makes me miss components for all the reusable parts, or whenever I want some small interactivity (like wanting to add a filter to a large list) it's nice to use what I know, and render it during build time, but possibly ship the components themselves to the browser for interactivity.
Until I read about Astro. I'm finally entering the 2020s and just starting to learn Astro. It's a bit daunting with my (intentional) gaps in skills but I'm finding my way.
I'm impressed with the speed and SEO capabilities out of the box. Using markdown is nice. And it meshes with the "next new big" thing when the time comes for me to venture out of the stone age. I'm on board.