# Astro

> MIT content-first web framework with islands

**Category:** Libraries  
**Pricing:** open-source  
**URL:** https://astro.build  
**GitHub:** https://github.com/withastro/astro  
**Added:** 2026-09-06

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## The Hook

Astro is the content-first framework when you want zero JS by default and islands for the interactive bits.

## What's Good

MIT. Ships HTML-first pages, islands hydration, brings your own UI framework (React/Vue/Svelte/Solid). Great for docs, marketing, content sites. Content collections and adapters for SSR/hosting.

## The Catch

Content-first islands; not Next/RSC. App-router SaaS dashboards often stay on Next. Server islands and adapters vary by host. Not a commerce-only stack.

## Verdict

MIT islands framework. Free forever; Next is the RSC cousin.