Build a personal blog with Astro

Picking a framework for a personal blog, I went back and forth and finally settled on Astro — for one simple reason: it ships zero JavaScript to the browser by default.

Content collections are the key

Astro’s Content Collections turn Markdown into real, typed data:

const posts = await getCollection("blog");

Every post’s title, pubDate, tags are constrained by a schema, so a typo in the frontmatter fails at build time instead of silently breaking in production.

Why it’s fast

• Pages are already complete HTML at build time
• Only the parts that need interactivity hydrate (Astro calls them “islands”)
• Deploy to any static host — no server to maintain

For one person writing posts, this combination is almost perfect.