**Astro** is a _fresh but familiar_ approach to building websites. Astro combines decades of proven performance best practices with the DX improvements of the component-oriented era. Use your favorite JavaScript framework and automatically ship the bare-minimum amount of JavaScript—by default. ### [Announcement Post →](https://astro.build/blog/introducing-astro) ### [Full Documentation Site →](https://docs.astro.build/) ## Project Status ⚠️ **Astro is still an early beta, missing features and bugs are to be expected!** If you can stomach it, then Astro-built sites are production ready and several production websites built with Astro already exist in the wild. We will update this note once we get closer to a stable, v1.0 release. ## Quick Start ```bash # get started with astro in 3 easy steps: mkdir new-project-directory cd new-project-directory npm init astro ``` ### [Full Documentation Site →](https://docs.astro.build/)