[tajd]

I ported my personal website from Jekyll to Astro a few weeks back and I really liked it. Astro is much easier to build and extend for me (and that is a personal preference point - I (and by I mostly mean claude) - and it's cool to add react components in to create more interactive points (but I haven't deployed that element yet).

Speed is probably the same as jekyll - but relative to my react vite and nextjs apps it's about 10 times faster.

I would definitely use Astro for more complicated websites than content driven - but would probably return to nextjs or more hefty full stack solutions for complicated web apps.

[hasanhaja]

Do you have an intuition of when something becomes hefty and complicated, and would require a full stack solution like Next.js?

[tajd]

I do not but I think I'm growing one!

Potentially the heuristics would be about the level of user state management - e.g. if you're needing to do various workflows vs just presenting content.