Different hydration and rendering strategies
Over the years, in our goal to achieve faster and faster web applications, we created different hydration and rendering strategies. Each with benefits and drawbacks that we explore in this article.
Tag: astro
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Upgrading from Astro 3 to Astro 6, with Claude doing most of the work
My site ran Astro 3 for three years. When Anthropic released the new Fable model, I tested it on the scariest item on my backlog: a three-major-version upgrade. This is how it went, numbers included.
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· seoAstro SEO Checklist 2026: 20 tactics ranked by impact
Astro SEO checklist for 2026: 20 tactics ranked from biggest to smallest impact, including canonical URLs, title tag rules, JSON-LD structured data, Person and BreadcrumbList schema, llms.txt, Pagefind search, and a Zod schema that caught 10 bugs in my podcast frontmatter.
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My blog got popular, and my bandwidth exploded to ~300GB in just 10 days
This made me take a good, hard look at my Astro blog and start optimizing: assets, headers, caching, CDN. Here is exactly what I did to fix it.
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Building a Subscribe Feature
Learn how to implement a newsletter subscribe feature similar to Substack using Astro, Netlify Functions, and Google Sheets - a free alternative to paid newsletter platforms.