Astro Guides

Guides, examples, and demonstrations of using the Netlify platform.

Serving user-generated uploads using Netlify Blobs

by Sean C Davis

Netlify's blob storage solution is flexible enough to accommodate a wide range of use cases, including allowing users to upload images to your site without needing a media service provider.

Astro Blobs Primitives

How Astro’s server islands deliver progressive rendering for your sites

by Rob Stanford

Learn how Astro's new Server Islands rendering option can help balance pre-generated and on-demand content in your sites and applications

Astro

Send emails in an Astro project using Resend

by Sean C Davis

Astro's hybrid rendering capabilities opens an array of possibilities on what you can easily accomplish, including sending emails. Here's an email-sending example using Resend.

Astro Resend

Add an image uploader to a file-based content site

by Sean C Davis

Managing images can be difficult in a git-based content workflow. This guide will show you how to add an image uploader to your Astro site to make it easy to add images to your content.

Astro

How to use Sanity Portable Text with Astro

by Paul Scanlon

Learn how to use Sanity's Portable Text content format in your Astro projects

Astro Sanity CMS

How to do ISR and advanced caching with Astro

by Matt Kane

Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is a powerful pattern for rendering pages on the web. Astro has useful tools to do fine-grained ISR and other advanced caching patterns when deployed to Netlify. This guide will show you how to do it.

Astro

How to use Sanity CMS with Astro

by Paul Scanlon

Learn how to combine Sanity CMS with the Astro web framework to deliver managed content through a site experience that is totally under your control.

Astro Sanity

Using cookies for displaying dynamic status messages with Astro

by Sean C Davis

Use server cookies and serverless functions to display dynamic feedback or status messages on your Astro site’s pages.

Astro

Install, build, and deploy an Astro site in 2 minutes

by Sean C Davis

Use the Astro CLI to create a new site, run it in development, and build it for production. Then preview and publish the build by deploying it using the Netlify CLI.

Astro CLI

Adding resumability to Astro with Qwik

by Paul Scanlon

Selecting Qwik to provide JavaScript interactions in an Astro site. An example and guide to writing your first Qwik components in Astro

Astro

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