Articles on Astro, web performance, design systems, and building with Astro Rocket.
How to install, configure, and deploy Astro Rocket — covering site.config.ts, brand colours, navigation, writing posts, and deploying to Vercel.
A complete walkthrough of Astro Rocket's configuration options: 12 colour themes, OKLCH colours, typography, radius and shadow tokens, header styles, dark mode, and more.
Project carousels now accept self-hosted video slides next to images. Here's how to use them, how they work, and why they don't cost a single Lighthouse point.
Swap Astro Rocket's auto-generated monogram for your own logo image, rename your site, and choose between a logo-with-wordmark or a logo-only header — mostly from a single config file.
Astro Rocket's homepage has a new Stack Marquee: two rows of tech-stack cards scrolling opposite ways with zero JavaScript. Here's how the loop works and why it's hidden on phones.
How the new opt-in i18n system works, what it adds when you turn it on, and the exact steps to ship your site in English plus a second language.
Astro Rocket now has optional comments on blog posts, powered by Giscus and GitHub Discussions. The script is lazy-loaded so readers who don't scroll to the bottom pay zero cost.
Astro Rocket now lets you configure the footer menu independently of the header navigation. Add a Privacy link, an Imprint, or a Cookie Policy without cluttering your main nav.
Astro Rocket renders an optional TOC on blog posts in three layouts — inline card, sticky sidebar, or both — with the sidebar on the left or right. Pick what fits your audience.
A 3-state colour-mode system with no flash, live OS-preference tracking, and a pill dropdown that respects what the user actually picked. Here is how it is built.
A deep dive into every animation layer in Astro Rocket: the clean ease-out hero entrance, the staggered scroll-reveal cascade, and how it all stays smooth without a JS animation library.
Astro Rocket ships with 57 production-ready components from the Velocity library — buttons, cards, dialogs, forms, data display, and full page-structure components. All accessible, all themed.
Astro Rocket handles structured data, Open Graph, canonical URLs, sitemaps, and more out of the box. Here's exactly what ships and where to configure it.
Astro Rocket's hero has an animated scroll indicator: two bouncing chevrons that fade in after the hero animation and disappear the moment you start scrolling. Here's how every part of it works.
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