Over the past few years, many new frontend frameworks have been released, offering developers a wide range of options to choose the one that best fits their projects. In this article, we will analyze Astro, an open-source project released with an MIT license. The first version, v1.0, was released in August 2022 as a web framework tailored for high-speed and content-focused websites.
One year later, in August 2023, they released Astro 3.0 with a lot of new features like view transitions, faster-rendering performance, SSR enhancements for serverless, and optimized build output, which we will cover later in the article. On October 12, 2023, they announced Astro 3.3 with exciting updates, such as the <Picture/> component for image handling.