Astro.js as an alternative to Next.js: pushing the limits

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  • astro-limitless

    Testing real-life project requirements on Astro

  • Here is the repo, follow along!

  • nextui

    🚀 Beautiful, fast and modern React UI library.

  • Something like NextUI would work, i.e. a “New Gen” UI framework. It’s Tailwind based AND it works in both .astro and .tsx files. Amazing!

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    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • nanostores

    A tiny (286 bytes) state manager for React/RN/Preact/Vue/Svelte with many atomic tree-shakable stores

  • In its docs, Astro recommends nanostores, but I’ve used effector in the past. And LOVED IT. So I’ve used it for this project as well.

  • storybook

    Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation. Made for UI development, testing, and documentation.

  • Astro has no runtime. This means no unit tests. This also means no Storybook for your Astro components (although, they’re working on it!)

  • mantine

    A fully featured React components library

  • Here’s another mentality shift for you. If you were thinking in a providers pattern, you need to snap out of it. You can no longer store your theme in a provider. No more RadixUI or MantineUI for you.

  • roadmap

    Ideas, suggestions, and formal RFC proposals for the Astro project. (by withastro)

  • Nonetheless, the Astro team is already thinking and working on the build engine. So it will only become better.

  • effector-react

    Business logic with ease ☄️

  • In its docs, Astro recommends nanostores, but I’ve used effector in the past. And LOVED IT. So I’ve used it for this project as well.

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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