I ported my NextJS blog to Astro
Essays and updates on product, engineering, and AI by Chase Adams.
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Back to NextJS
And just like that, I'm back to NextJS. I liked Astro but some JavaScript libraries I liked using with NextJS didn't work in Astro.
Over the weekend I ported my NextJS blog to Astro and so far I'm happy with it.
Why I Switched
I found I had to write a lot of custom implementations for fetching and rendering my Markdown (written in Obsidian) content in NextJS.
Astro makes it easy to integrate Markdown and MDX in a way that's highly customizable by using the astro.config configuration (my astro.config).
Related Notes
- Astro (JavaScript)
- I wrote more about my site configuration on chaseadams.io
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