v4 of my personal portfolio using Astro is now live!
Migration from 2020 Nuxt 2 reaching End of Life was the opportunity to try Astro.
I’m very happy with the result, achieving an impressive size reduction:
v3 (248.71 kB)
/index.html (24,53 kB)
├── 6d9de06.js (2,37 kB)
├── 8182508.js (172.05 kB)
├── 766eaf8.js (60.26 kB)
├── 92ce22e.js (16.51 kB)
├── 0b849bb.js (9.53 kB)
v4 (11,83 kB)
/index.html (11,83 kB)
With all JS and CSS inlined.
And of course Lighthouse score increased:
v3
v4
One of the challenges was to re-create Nuxt Color Mode with vanilla JS and CSS.
With the help of the Astro docs, the result was very neat, you can check the component Switch.astro
On the other hand, I chose to abandon the Vue Transition Component to avoid introducing a JS framework in the project.
- v4 2024 Astro (SSR) custom CSS + JS
- v3 2020 Nuxt 2 (SSR) + Vue 2 + SCSS
- v2 2018 Phenomic
- v1 Static HTML + CSS
Inside of the Astro project, you'll see the following folders and files:
/
├── public/
│ └── icons/
│ └── images/
├── src/
│ ├── components/
│ │ └── Card.astro
│ ├── layouts/
│ │ └── Layout.astro
│ └── pages/
│ └── index.astro
└── package.json
Astro looks for .astro or .md files in the src/pages/ directory. Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name.
There's nothing special about src/components/, but that's where we like to put any Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components.
Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the public/ directory.
All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:
| Command | Action |
|---|---|
npm install |
Installs dependencies |
npm run dev |
Starts local dev server at localhost:4321 |
npm run build |
Build your production site to ./dist/ |
npm run preview |
Preview your build locally, before deploying |
npm run astro ... |
Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check |
npm run astro -- --help |
Get help using the Astro CLI |