is-land VS madatdata

> still relies on other frontend frameworks like Svelte or React.

It doesn't have to. You can use it without any frontend framework.

> So, what, exactly is Astro other than YACC like Vite?

Selling point of Astro is the partial / conditional hydration; they call it Island Architecture. This is not unique to Astro, though[1].

It also does some neat stuff with frontmatter [2].

The biggest turn-off for me though is that telemetry is ON by default and you need to manually switch it off.

[1]: https://github.com/11ty/is-land and https://github.com/ElMassimo/iles also offer Islands.

Check out: https://github.com/11ty/is-land

Mostly because of partial/conditional hydration. But you can achieve the same thing with is-land[1] on Rails as well.

[1]: https://github.com/11ty/is-land

You might like what we're building with Seafowl [0], which is an open-source, single binary database you can deploy to the edge for executing cache-friendly queries (so e.g. you can deploy to fly.io free tier, load your data into it, and put Cloudflare in front of it to cache query results like any other HTTP response).

Here's an example [1] multi-page site with Next.js and Seafowl.

[0] https://seafowl.io/docs/getting-started/introduction

[1] https://github.com/splitgraph/madatdata/tree/main/examples/r...

If you're interested, this is the "absolute minimum" React project I was able to create, using `esbuild` (see `dev.mjs`) and some .html files. [0] It's a sub-package in a larger workspace, so there is some complexity inherited from the monorepo in terms of tsconfig.json and dependency management, but you can ignore that; the esbuild part was pleasantly simple to implement, and it pretty much "just works," such that each file in `www` is an entrypoint with one corresponding script from `pages/` that calls `createRoot(container).render()`.

[0] https://github.com/splitgraph/madatdata/tree/main/packages/t...