Here's a trivial example: https://supremecommander.ai. A raw CSS implementation of my blog's logo would have been a pain to build and maintain, but with Astro the code is relatively straightforward JS that becomes pure HTML/CSS at build-time.

The other nice thing is that you can throw all kinds of preexisting components from React/whatever into your site, and it will ship zero JS to the client until you explicitly flag a specific JS resource as an "island".

The only special thing about "islands" is that they're an escape hatch from the default behavior of JS being strictly build-time-evaluated. I found the terminology and description a little confusing at first too, because it makes it sound more special than it is. But the concept makes sense when you understand the context of Astro's intentional default behavior.

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weakfish 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Your website also reloads itself every 4 seconds for me on mobile Firefox

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buu700 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Good to know, thanks! I can't reproduce that on Android (and it's especially weird since the site has almost no JS), but I'll investigate and try to figure it out.

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weakfish 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Np! Hopefully my comment didn’t come off aggressive, meant it to be helpful

	▲	buu700 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		lol, well I'd appreciate the heads up even if it were meant to be aggressive, but thanks. Should be good now; the issue was most likely a CSS animation causing the browser tab to crash, so now it'll just turn off the animation whenever the page is quickly reloaded twice in a row. By the way, I'm getting a 404 at https://www.weakphi.sh/showcase.