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Welcome to Astro Weekly #117!
From edge computing benchmarks to smart hybrid architectures, this week’s issue explores performance deep-dives, framework migrations, and a slick new content editor worth checking out.
An in-depth performance experiment measuring Astro on Cloudflare Workers across worldwide locations, testing static assets, KV reads/writes, and SSR latencies to reveal the reality of edge computing.
Moon Pixels switched from Laravel with Inertia and React to Astro for their content-driven site, gaining near-zero JavaScript, instant performance, and dramatically lower hosting costs on Cloudflare Pages.
Coding in Public showcases Astro Editor, a distraction-free markdown editor built specifically for Astro Content Collections with focus mode, copy editing, and seamless MDX component embedding—all free and open source.
Nick Diego rebuilt his site with Next.js and MDX to unlock AI-assisted workflows with Claude Code, trading database abstractions for plain text files and custom slash commands that streamline content creation.
A clever architecture that serves tournament schedules as static HTML at build time while handling user authentication and picks dynamically with Firebase, combining SSG performance with SPA interactivity.
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Until next time, Astronauts!
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