Simple, minimal, stacked, centered and columns. The default builds its own columns from your nav, your tags and your projects, and shrinks back to a single row when a site has nothing to put in them.
A signup that posts to a Resend audience, in the footer of every page. On by default, and it tells you when its keys are missing instead of waiting for a visitor to find out.
Umami works out of the box: private, cookieless web analytics. Set one environment variable and you get visitor numbers with no cookie banner.
Astro Rocket is installed with git clone, so updating is a git merge rather than an npm install. Here's the safe, reversible way to do it.
Embed a YouTube video with one component. The page ships only a thumbnail; the player loads from youtube-nocookie.com on play, so Lighthouse stays at 100.
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 the auto-generated monogram for your own logo, rename your site, and choose a logo-with-wordmark or logo-only header — mostly from one config file.
Two rows of tech-stack cards scrolling opposite ways with no JavaScript. How the homepage marquee loop works, and why it is hidden on phones.
How the opt-in i18n works: locale routing, the t()/tData() dictionary, an auto-localized blog, projects and pages, and how to ship a multilingual site.
Astro Rocket's blog comments are pluggable: pick Giscus, Cusdis, or the fully self-hosted Artalk. All three lazy-load on scroll — skip them and you pay nothing.
Configure the footer menu independently of the header navigation: add a Privacy link, an Imprint, or a Cookie Policy without cluttering your main nav.
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 with no flash, live OS-preference tracking, and a pill dropdown that respects what the user picked. Here is how it is built.
How to drop a brand-tinted LetterGlitch canvas effect into an Astro 7 project: the full component, an Astro wrapper, and the production-ready details.
How to install, configure, and deploy Astro Rocket — covering site.config.ts, brand colours, navigation, writing posts, and deploying to Vercel.
A walkthrough of every configuration option: 12 colour themes, OKLCH colours, typography, radius and shadow tokens, header styles, and dark mode.
Every animation layer in Astro Rocket: the ease-out hero entrance, the staggered scroll-reveal cascade, and how it stays smooth with no JS animation library.
A 44-component UI 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.
Two bouncing chevrons that fade in after the hero animation and disappear the moment you start scrolling. How every part of the indicator works.
The back-to-top button has a circular SVG ring that fills as you scroll: brand-coloured, theme-aware, and built from CSS and a small inline script.
The contact form is wired up but needs three things to deliver email: a Resend account, a verified domain, and one environment variable on Vercel.
A thin brand-coloured line that fills as you scroll. How the progress bar works, where it lives, and how to enable it on any page.
Astro Rocket uses a three-tier token architecture with OKLCH colors. Change one value and the entire site updates. Here's how it works and how to make it yours.
The hero headline cycles through words with a typing animation. How it works, how to tune every speed and pause, and how to turn it off.