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Along the way, I saw that the launch of Astro 1.0, originally planned for early June, had slipped multiple times. As of now, it’s set for next week, assuming the current Release Candidate (RC) suffices. This post is about one key decision that came very late in the dev process: Astro is shifting content management support from Markdown to MDX. (While Markdown will still work in Astro at least for the time being, it’ll do so under a “legacy” flag.)
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. . . larger sites don’t refresh all that quickly when you edit either Markdown or an .astro file . . . . where refresh-in-dev-mode speed is concerned, all the other competitors currently have an edge on Astro for this item, with the stunningly fast Hugo obviously leading the pack.
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In April, I wrote “Is Astro ready for your blog?” In it, I noted that, although the Astro static site generator (SSG) was (as it still is) justly receiving a lot of love for its many cool features and the leanness of Astro-built sites, it did suffer somewhat regarding the developer experience on a site containing a large number of Markdown files:
