DevOps.js

DevOps.js Conf 2024

The Talk covers the speaker's personal journey into server-side rendering (SSR) and the evolution of web development frameworks. It explores the use of jQuery for animations in SSR, the challenges faced in integrating React with Umbraco, and the creation of a custom SSR framework. The Talk also discusses the benefits of Next.js and the use of serverless artifacts for deployment. Finally, it highlights the features of Astro, including its function per route capability.

A walk-through of the evolution of SSR in the last twelve years. We will cover how techniques changed, typical problems, tools you can use and various solutions, all from the point of view of my personal experience as a consumer and maintainer.

You Don’t Know How to SSR

Emanuele Stoppa

React Day Berlin

React Day Berlin 2023

Astro is a powerful framework for content-driven websites, with its own syntax and the ability to use favorite front-end libraries. It has seen significant improvements in Astro 2 and Astro 3, including view transitions and improved performance. Astro 4 introduces features like a powerful dev toolbar, content caching, and internationalization support. The Astro community is highly regarded, and Astro is being used for production websites. Astro also supports migrating legacy websites and integrating with headless CMSs.

Astro 3 was released a while ago and brought some amazing new features with it. In this talk, we’ll take a look at some of the newly released features in Astro 3, do some live coding and have some fun. We can take a look at what’s coming next in Astro 4 and there also might be a 'one more thing

All Things Astro

Elian Van Cutsem

React Advanced

React Advanced 2023

This Talk discusses opt-in design in web development, focusing on API design and understanding good defaults. Opt-in design allows developers to start with minimal tools and gradually add complexity as needed. The principles of opt-in design include finding the lowest common denominator, making complexity easy to add, and prioritizing the user experience. The Talk also explores the concept of opt-in design in React and Astro, as well as the comparison between React and Solid frameworks. Server rendering and streaming in React are highlighted, along with the importance of suspense boundaries for a better user experience.

Picking up a new technology, developers stick with defaults. It's a fact that every tool from JQuery to NextJS has needed to face. At their worst, defaults ship hundreds of wasted JS kilobytes for routing, state, and other baggage developers may never use. But at their best, defaults give us a simple baseline to start from, with a clear path to add the exact set of features our project demands. This is the magic of opt-in design. Let's see how smart defaults guide modern frontend tools from Astro to React Server Components, and why this new era reshapes your workflow, and performance metrics, for the better.

Opt in Design – The New Era of React Frameworks

Ben Holmes

React Day Berlin 2024

Hello, everybody. Today, we're going to look at Astro. Basically, we're going to build a full-stack website with Astro. Astro is a comparable framework to Next or Nuxt. It's a metaframework basically. In Astro, we can build websites using React or Vue or Svelte. It's very versatile. We have the assets folder, component, layout, and page. The Astro dev toolbar provides privileges, integrations, feedback, inspection, and audits. We can create dynamic pages using string interpolation and dot Astro file. We can integrate React into Astro and create components. AstroDB allows for server-side rendered pages. We can customize the layout and styling of pages. Smooth transitions can be implemented in Astro to create a SPA-like experience. We can install a database in Astro and fetch data from it. Handling form submissions and performing validations using Zod in Astro is possible. Astro provides JSON API to handle form submissions. We can utilize the capabilities of Astro to handle middleware.

The web is capable of way more than we might think. During this workshop, we'll explore some lesser known parts of the web. Did you know you can control the web via webHID or send and receive notes to devices via webMIDI? In this interactive talk we might make some music together, by controlling synthesisers and exploring the wide range of strange web API's. All that in vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks needed.

Astro: All Hands On

React Advanced 2024

Hello everyone. My name is Szymon Chmal and I am a Senior React Native Developer at CallStack. Today I'm going to introduce you to ASTRA, a powerful tool in modern web development that optimizes content delivery while providing the flexibility of modern JavaScript frameworks. ASTRA allows you to create blazing fast static websites without needing any JavaScript by default. It's perfect for sites that are mostly static but have a few interactive features. ASTRA is trusted by industry leaders like Microsoft and Porsche. It's built with content-driven pages in mind and supports integration with popular UI libraries like React, Vue, and Tailwind. ASTRA keeps things simple with file-based routing.

Next.js is the default choice for most teams, although there are many other solutions on the market. One of such solutions is Astro, which in certain areas, due to its eccentric approach, seems to outclass the Vercel king. During this lecture, I will present the key features of Astro, as well as the differences between it and the aforementioned Next.js. You will learn what interactive islands are, why MPA (multi-page application) is still a very good choice for content-driven websites, and much more. Who knows - maybe you will use Astro in your next project?

Astro – Island Technology in the Name of Optimization

Szymon Chmal

Hello, everybody. I'm Elion, the Lead Developer Relations at React Bricks. Astro is a web framework for content-driven development, similar to Next or Nuxt. It supports TypeScript and JavaScript and compiles down to HTML and CSS, resulting in excellent indexability and SEO. HTML and JavaScript can be used together with Astro through client directives, allowing for interactive websites while optimizing performance. Astro's server islands architecture delays rendering until all content is available, and client-side interactivity is achieved through battery API and server authentication. Astro provides native data loading and supports open-source loaders for different content types. Collections and Astro Actions make content reuse and API usage easier. Zalt Schema, AstraDB, and ORM are available for form data handling. AstroDB and Starlight enable the use of different databases and on-demand rendering. Astro 5.0 introduces better localization, simplified rendering modes, and a content layer API. There is an upgrade guide for Astro 5.0 and it integrates well with React. Astro is recommended for content-driven websites but may not be ideal for building dashboards or authentication services. Astro has influenced other frameworks and aims to push the web towards better standards.

In this talk, we'll explore building full-stack web applications powered by Astro and Astro DB.We'll start by discovering the basics of Astro, why and where it's useful, and how to build a simple web application with it. We'll discover how to use Astro's hybrid rendering mode to add API routes and dynamic server-side rendering to the application.Then we'll dive into Astro DB, a simple, yet powerful ORM used to communicate between a LibSQL database and your Astro application. Also, Astro 5.0-beta has been released, we’ll round up the talk by looking at the new features, some demos and discovering how to upgrade.

Diving Into Server Islands

React Summit

React Summit 2024

The Talk revolves around the future of JavaScript, React, and Astro. Astro focuses on performance and delivering a better developer and user experience, particularly for content sites. It introduces view transitions, islands, and content as primitives for the next decade of web development. Astro also emphasizes zero JavaScript transitions, native transitions, and a unified content layer. It aims to optimize performance, offer personalized experiences, and ensure compatibility with any tech stack.

What's next for Astro? Hear from Fred K. Schott (Astro co-creator, core maintainer) about the future direction for Astro's content-driven web framework. Featuring new announcements and demos that build on three of Astro's foundational core primitives: Islands, Content Collections, and View Transitions.

What’s New in Astro

Fred K. Schott

JS Nation

JSNation 2024

Astro is a web framework that aims to optimize site performance without sacrificing functionality. It introduces features such as content collections and view transitions to enhance the user experience. Astro focuses on pushing the web forward by providing browser compatibility and app-like experiences. It also explores a powerful content layer and island architecture for personalized content. Astro is recommended for content-driven websites and offers a polyfill for Safari and integration with Storyblok CMS.

What's New in Astro

This workshop introduces Astro Storyblok and combines it with the headless CMS, Storyblok. It covers topics such as headless CMS, JAMstack, and the use of atomic design. Participants learn how to set up a Storyblok account, configure the preview URL, and import component schemas. They also explore real-time editing, nested components, and dynamic menus. The workshop concludes with customizing existing components, adding images, and using the Astro image component.

Headless architecture has gained immense popularity in recent years for its ability to decouple the frontend and backend, empowering developers to create engaging, interactive, and scalable web applications.  In this workshop, we will quickly take a dive into the Headless World and Architecture.  Additionally, we will build a blog website super quickly using Storyblok, a headless CMS that offers a real-time preview feature with nestable component approach, and Astro (3.0) which is already creating a buzz with the new app directory.  - Master headless CMS fundamentals- Master an Astro &amp; headless CMS approach- Use Atomic design in your Astro &amp; Storyblok application- Creating pages, adding content and understanding how the dynamic routing works with headless

Crash course into Astro and Storyblok

Arisa Fukuzaki

React Summit 2023

Today's workshop covers the basics of various topics, with a focus on Rich Text Resolution in Headless CMS. Participants will learn how to import content, create pages and components, generate TypeScript models, and resolve rich text. The workshop also discusses portable text and its benefits. The use of Astro as a front-end framework is highlighted, along with its compatibility with React, Vue.js, and vanilla JavaScript. Participants will also learn about working with environments, fetching data, and adding custom components in Astro.

During this crash course, we’ll create a new project in the headless CMS, create the content model and data using the Kontent.ai CLI. Then, we’ll use the content to build an Astro website including front-end components and rich text resolution using Portable Text. This will be hands-on workshop, you’ll need VS Code, Git, NPM and basic knowledge of JavaScript. Don’t worry, I will explain all the steps as we advance through the workshop and you will be able to directly ask any questions.

Crash Course Into Astro, Kontent.ai and Portable Text

Ondrej Polesny

React Advanced 2022

The islands architecture is a new way to build websites with low or no JavaScript, using libraries like Astro and Fresh. Server-side rendering improves SEO and loading times, but can still result in large JavaScript payloads. Hydration allows for islands of interactivity, loading only necessary JavaScript. Astro is a framework for implementing the islands architecture, supporting multiple libraries like React and SolidJS. It enables progressive migration between frameworks and integration of different libraries in the same project.

An introduction to the emerging islands architecture which can significantly improve the performance of your apps.

Astro & Fresh - Understanding the Islands Architecture

Arpit Bharti

JSNation 2022

The next wave of web frameworks is BYOJS, covering the history and evolution of building web applications. The evolution of web frameworks and build systems includes popular choices like React, Angular, and Vue, as well as advanced build systems like Webpack and Rollup. The rise of performance measurement tools and the adoption of the Jamstack have led to improved web performance. The Jamstack architecture focuses on pre-rendering pages, decoupling APIs and services, and enhancing pages with JavaScript. Astro, a static site generator with SSR support, promotes the islands architecture and partial hydration.

Web application development has had many shifts over the lifetime of the web. From server-side applications with a sprinkle of JavaScript to Single Page Applications built entirely with JavaScript. Now we’re heading back to where many new web frameworks build for static first, with JavaScript added as needed. This talk covers building web applications with JavaScript through the lens of Astro, a static site generator where the choice of JavaScript framework is uniquely yours. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"></a>

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