Yapping About Astro

[@petarstoyanov8976]

Thanks, Chris! Astro looks really interesting. Now I'm even more interested in trying it out! All the best!

[@petter.envall]

`npm i astro@lastest` was a cool one :-) shame it didn't work

[@brijesh1809]

Looks interesting, but I'd stick with using next's ISR and revalidate data

[@cabanford]

Time for an update Yap, now that Astro has gone mainstream

[@tutkodev]

Yeah as they are adding their native database right now it woud be a nice topic to review.

[@humbertqz]

Nice intro

[@HussainFazaal]

Tried it for a side project, the error messages are not as nice so hard to debug. It's still getting polished. Looks fun though

[@Nali247]

It said in your terminal what the latest version is and how to install it (for future ref) :)

[@JohnCamacho]

I'm kind of confused about static site generators. Are they only for informational websites e.g. I cannot login or display any dynamic data?

[@jacobroling2287]

Hi John, static site generators simply enable you to ship pages that are static (sent to the end user exactly as they are stored). As for displaying dynamic data, API calls can be made and cached at build time for static pages which would mean new data would appear whenever the website is rebuilt. However, server side rendering is a method in which the server makes any API calls and generates a static page on the fly each time the user loads the page. For truly dynamic content that changes while a user is on the page, this is not possible with a static page until JavaScript functionality is loaded which can be done on top of a static page, this is the same for user logins.

[@JohnCamacho]

@@jacobroling2287 Thanks a lot for this Jacob.