https://lab.artur-rios.tech/tags/astro/Recent content in Astro on Artur Rios LabHugoen-usWed, 21 Oct 2026 17:55:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/infrastructure/infrastructure-static-sites/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:55:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/infrastructure/infrastructure-static-sites/<p>A static site is rendered to HTML, CSS and JavaScript when it is built, and served as files from then on: portfolios, brochure sites, event pages and small blogs. With no code running on a server, it can be hosted for free on a CDN and will never go down for want of a patch.</p> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Concern</th> <th>Choice</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Generator</td> <td>Astro for content-first sites, or Next.js with a static export</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Styling</td> <td>Tailwind CSS</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hosting</td> <td>Cloudflare Pages, or GitHub Pages</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Deploys</td> <td>The host&rsquo;s Git integration, or GitHub Actions</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Its neighbours in this series draw the line: a page that needs a form or a server function is a <a href="https://lab.artur-rios.tech/infrastructure/infrastructure-landing-pages/">landing page</a>, on Vercel, and reference documentation is a <a href="https://lab.artur-rios.tech/infrastructure/infrastructure-documentation-sites/">documentation site</a>, in Hugo.</p>