Switching to Astro

Decided to make the switch to Astro (currently at 0.24.3). Unlike VuePress, Astro doesn’t come with batteries so I’m basically starting from scratch. I think I’ve reached a point where I think I can replace the current website.

Differences

Just to highlight some of the main differences:

• Astro uses “remark” for the markdown engine, while VuePress is based on “markdown-it”.
• Astro is a static site generator generating multiple standalone pages, while VuePress builds a Single Page App.
• You must add the “layout” field to the markdown frontmatter. There had been some discussions over at Astro’s Github repo about creating a way to avoid doing this (since people want to convert their existing sites and this is quite a bit of hassle). I hope they agree on a solution soon. For now, aliases help to alleviate this pain a bit.
• Astro doesn’t come with any search feature.
• Still no Prettier for .astro files.