Web Frameworks, the Launch of Astro 1.0, and National Parks with Nate Moore

Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat

Introducing a new framework can be challenging, especially when developers are loyal to old favorites. But Astro 1.0 is bridging the gap between old and new by staying compatible and familiar with other frameworks.

Nate Moore, an engineer at Astro Technology Company and core maintainer on Astro has been working on Astro 1.0 for 16 months. His major focus was launching a new web framework that is sustainable and future-proof. Astro 1.0 is targeted at devs building content-based websites and is compatible with most frameworks out there.

In this episode, Nate talks with Robbie and Chuck about the launch of Astro 1.0, its compatibility with other frameworks, frameworks that inspired Astro, and Nate's life goal of visiting every national park.

Key Takeaways

• [00:49] - A quick intro to Nate.
• [01:36] - A whisky review - Laws Centennial Straight Wheat Whiskey 4 Year.
• [09:59] - What is Astro?
• [23:24] - What are the new features in Astro 1.0?
• [30:32] - Web components Nate has used.
• [42:10] - The challenges with monorepos.
• [44:41] - Nate's life goal of visiting every national park.

Quotes

[12:11] - "I think the ecosystem just goes in circles. But it is funny to see people come into the ecosystem and be like, where's your link component? It's like that's just an anchor tag. You don't need a component." - @n_moore [https://twitter.com/n_moore]

[22:39] - "I heard somebody recently described Vite as the United Nations of JavaScript. Everybody is building on top of Vite now, and it's just really cool to see because if you hit a bug and you upstream a fix, then everybody is going to benefit from that, and people are really taking it in a lot of different ways." - @n_moore [https://twitter.com/n_moore]

[27:39] - "I think people are really spoiled by how much investment like Microsoft has made into TypeScript and just like all the tooling around that stuff. It is so much work to get your own language up and running." - @n_moore [https://twitter.com/n_moore]

Links

• Nate Moore Twitter [https://twitter.com/n_moore]
• Astro Twitter [https://twitter.com/astrodotbuild]
• Astro [https://astro.build/]
• NASA [https://www.nasa.gov/]
• Law Whiskey Centennial Wheat Whiskey [https://lawswhiskeyhouse.com/laws-bonded-centennial-wheat-whiskey-turns-five-years-old/]
• 1787 Coworking Space [https://1787.work/]
• JavaScript [https://www.javascript.com/]
• React [https://reactjs.org/]
• HTML [https://html.com/]
• JSX [https://reactjs.org/docs/introducing-jsx.html]
• Stack Overflow [https://stackoverflow.com/]
• JQuery [https://jquery.com/]
• Svelte [https://svelte.dev/]
• Solid [https://www.solidjs.com/]
• Vue [https://vuejs.org/]
• Ryan Carniato Twitter [https://twitter.com/RyanCarniato]
• Redwood [https://redwoodjs.com/]
• Remix [https://remix.run/]
• React Router [https://reactrouter.com/]
• NextJS [https://nextjs.org/]
• Ember [https://emberjs.com/]
• Glimmer [https://glimmerjs.com/]
• Snowpack [https://www.snowflake.com/snowpark/]
• Skypack [https://www.skypack.dev/]
• Vite [https://vitejs.dev/]
• Markdown [https://www.markdownguide.org/]
• Netlify [https://www.netlify.com/]
• Vercel [https://vercel.com/]
• Discord [https://discord.com/]

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