Astro is fine I guess

When I’m not fighting WordPress I deliver static HTML or the occasional JavaScript framework integration. For personal projects I have ‘fun’ with my own static site generator.This week was a side quest (soon to be main quest) to build my new company website. We’re talking proper business here so I can’t be messing about. I figured an off the shelf SSG would be most suitable.I asked the socials, “11ty or Astro?” Both are popular but Astro had the edge. I gave Astro an early spin back in 2022 and found it slow. Maybe it’s good now?The installI ran pnpm create with minimum release age to avoid immediately getting pwned.I selected Astro’s “Use minimal (empty) template” option and it generated both an AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md file — are you f — deep breaths, don’t fall for the rage bait.I code in a modern editor so I installed the recommended Astro extension. At first I struggled with Zed recognising HTML.I discovered a restart temporarily fixed the issue, but I guess I restarted one time…