Astro Launchpad

Astro Launchpad is a comprehensive Astro 2.0 template project designed to kickstart robust web development. It offers a pre-configured environment with a wide array of features and best practices, making it ideal for launching modern web applications.

Key Features:

• Hybrid Rendering: Configured with Astro 2.0's hybrid output, supporting both Static Site Generation (SSG) and Server-Side Rendering (SSR) routes within a single project.
• Vercel Deployment: Optimized for deployment on Vercel, leveraging its capabilities for hosting, SSR, and API microservices (serverless and edge functions). API clients are automatically generated in pages/api-client.
• Monorepo Management: Utilizes Turborepo for efficient monorepo management, adhering to best practices for eslint, prettier, tsconfig, code sharing, and build caching (local and remote).
• Authentication & Internationalization: Includes isomorphic authentication (auth-astro) and internationalization (i18next) layers, ready for immediate use.
• Frontend Frameworks: Pre-configured with preact and react for building interactive UI components.
• SEO & Performance: Integrates astro-sitemap, astro-robots-txt, and astro-webmanifest for enhanced SEO, along with astrojs-service-worker for PWA capabilities and sharp for local image optimization.
• Development Tooling: Comes with eslint, browserslist, dotenv, prettier, and custom tsconfig for a streamlined development workflow.
• Shared Packages: A modular structure with shared packages in packages/* for reusable code, including:
  • components: Reusable Astro components.
  • i18n: Internationalization logic.
  • auth: Authentication utilities.
  • icons: A collection of SVG icons.
  • reactive: Helper functions for Preact.
  • theme: Tailwind theming utilities.
  • tsconfig, format, eslint-config-custom: Unified configurations.

Use Cases: Astro Launchpad is perfect for developers looking to quickly start projects requiring:

• Modern web applications with hybrid rendering needs.
• Scalable backends using serverless API microservices.
• Integrated authentication and multi-language support.
• Optimized performance and SEO out-of-the-box.
• A structured monorepo setup for large or multiple projects.

Performance: The project boasts impressive build times:

• No cache (Vercel, remote CI/CD): ~40 seconds.
• With cache (Vercel, remote CI/CD): Full Turbo build in ~6 seconds; ~34 seconds if one package/app is affected (including yarn install).
• Locally (Apple M1 Max): Full build in ~3.79 seconds.