Astro Development Service
Content-heavy sites and marketing pages built in Astro with React, Vue, or Svelte islands. Senior engineers, subscription pricing.
Why Marketing Sites Belong in Astro, Not Next.js
Most marketing sites are over-engineered. Teams default to Next.js because they already know it, then ship 300KB of JavaScript to render a landing page that has one carousel and a contact form. Lighthouse scores tank. Time-to-interactive bloats. Google demotes the page. The content team complains the CMS is slow. And someone has to maintain a React app that did not need to be a React app.
Astro inverts the default. It ships HTML and zero JavaScript unless you explicitly opt in to interactivity via an "island." You can write your sections in plain `.astro` files, drop in a React component for the contact form, a Svelte component for the pricing toggle, and a Vue component for the modal — and only those islands hydrate. The rest is static.
The catch is that Astro is its own framework with its own mental model. Frontmatter scripts. Slots. Layout components. Content collections with Zod schemas. View Transitions API integration. Component Islands with `client:visible`, `client:idle`, `client:load`, and `client:only`. Engineers used to Next.js write Astro that bypasses its strengths — slapping `client:load` on everything and re-creating the JS-heavy app they were trying to escape.
Astro is particularly strong for content sites: blogs, documentation, marketing pages, landing pages, comparison tables, programmatic SEO. Content collections give you typed Markdown and MDX with Zod-validated frontmatter. Integration with headless CMSes (Sanity, Contentful, Strapi, Notion) is well-trodden. The build is fast even on huge content sets.
AsyncForge has senior Astro engineers shipping production sites today. Submit a landing page redesign, a blog migration from WordPress, a documentation site, or a full programmatic-SEO build with thousands of pages, and get it shipped on a fixed monthly fee. Light 4 days, Standard 48 hours, Pro 1 business day.
What You Get
Astro Content Collections
Type-safe Markdown and MDX with Zod schemas validating every frontmatter field. Adding a new post type is a single schema update, not a database migration.
Islands of interactivity
Plain HTML by default. Interactive components hydrate only when needed via `client:visible`, `client:idle`, or `client:only`. We pick the right directive per component to minimise main-thread cost.
Programmatic SEO at build time
Thousands of generated pages from a data source — services, locations, comparisons, personas — built at compile time and served as static HTML. No SSR cost, no latency, no cold starts.
CMS integrations
Sanity, Contentful, Strapi, Notion, or even a plain Google Sheet. We connect your content source and design the schema so editors can publish without breaking the build.
View Transitions
Native View Transitions API for smooth page navigations without a SPA shell. Persistent elements (nav, audio player, video) stay mounted across navigations.
Image optimisation
`<Image>` and `<Picture>` from `astro:assets` with automatic responsive sizes, lazy loading, and modern formats (AVIF, WebP). Build-time optimisation means no runtime cost.
Technologies We Use
How It Works With AsyncForge
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Pages, content schemas, CMS integrations, programmatic SEO. Bring Figma and content samples.
We ship
Built, deployed to staging, Lighthouse-verified. Within your SLA.
Iterate
Revisions until you ship to production.
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