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Was this post written by ChatGPT? Were many other comments in this thread written by people with undisclosed interest in this project (e.g. employees, founder f

by vlaaad 4y ago

Was this post written by ChatGPT? Were many other comments in this thread written by people with undisclosed interest in this project (e.g. employees, founder friends)? Maybe I'm thinking too much about it, but I got triggered by "This new release is a game-changer for anyone working with Markdown on the web", the style of writing is very similar to ChatGPT... Also, I work with markdown on the web and never had any problems with it, not sure what's the problem solved by Astro.

MrOwnPut 4y ago
The previous sentence before your quote: > Astro now helps you organize your Markdown with built-in parsing, validation, and automatic TypeScript type generation. The bolded text leading the paragraph of your quote: > deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX The announcement is about typing MDX. Also, Astro just works out-of-the-box with MDX, Next.js you have to do configuring. In others your don't get SSR. Personally Astro has the easiest and most flexible markdown experience ever. It makes sense to focus on that support and to lead with it. You can even have templates in JSX with MDX content files, cool stuff like that. The Hybrid Rendering feature is really cool too. I have a few pages I wanted to SSR, but most of the site can be SSG. This saves from needing two projects. I can select pages to generate at build. The rest of the error message optimization and dev tool improvements is always welcome. Not affiliate with Astro btw.
ZephyrBlu 4y ago
No, Astro is just that good. For me it feels the same as when first tried React's hooks. It's just so good and obviously a better approach. For content based sites it definitely feels like a massive game-changer because you can write everything in any framework and render it all to static HTML. Or if you need some JS you get hydrations out of the box for free. The type-safe MD/MDX in 2.0 seems very useful as well. Pre-defined functions for fetching content which have auto-completion and typing sounds very exciting for DX.

by vlaaad 4y ago

MrOwnPut 4y ago

The previous sentence before your quote: > Astro now helps you organize your Markdown with built-in parsing, validation, and automatic TypeScript type generation. The bolded text leading the paragraph of your quote: > deliver complete type-safety for Markdown and MDX The announcement is about typing MDX. Also, Astro just works out-of-the-box with MDX, Next.js you have to do configuring. In others your don't get SSR. Personally Astro has the easiest and most flexible markdown experience ever. It makes sense to focus on that support and to lead with it. You can even have templates in JSX with MDX content files, cool stuff like that. The Hybrid Rendering feature is really cool too. I have a few pages I wanted to SSR, but most of the site can be SSG. This saves from needing two projects. I can select pages to generate at build. The rest of the error message optimization and dev tool improvements is always welcome. Not affiliate with Astro btw.

ZephyrBlu 4y ago

No, Astro is just that good. For me it feels the same as when first tried React's hooks. It's just so good and obviously a better approach. For content based sites it definitely feels like a massive game-changer because you can write everything in any framework and render it all to static HTML. Or if you need some JS you get hydrations out of the box for free. The type-safe MD/MDX in 2.0 seems very useful as well. Pre-defined functions for fetching content which have auto-completion and typing sounds very exciting for DX.