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**Astro** is a _fresh but familiar_ approach to building websites. Astro combines decades of proven performance best practices with the DX improvements of the component-oriented era. Use your favorite JavaScript framework and automatically ship the bare-minimum amount of JavaScript—by default.


### [Announcement Post →](https://astro.build/blog/introducing-astro)

### [Full Documentation Site →](https://docs.astro.build/)

## Project Status

⚠️ **Astro is still an early beta, missing features and bugs are to be expected!** If you can stomach it, then Astro-built sites are production ready and several production websites built with Astro already exist in the wild. We will update this note once we get closer to a stable, v1.0 release.

## Quick Start

```bash
# get started with astro in 3 easy steps:
mkdir new-project-directory
cd new-project-directory
npm init astro
```

### [Full Documentation Site →](https://docs.astro.build/)

## Sponsors

You can sponsor Astro's development on [Open Collective][oc]. Astro is generously supported by the following companies and individuals:

### Platinum Sponsors

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  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td align="center"><a href="https://www.netlify.com/" target="_blank"><img width="147" height="40" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snowpackjs/astro/main/.github/assets/netlify.svg" alt="Netlify" /></a></td>
      <td align="center"><a href="https://www.vercel.com/" target="_blank"><img width="150" height="34" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snowpackjs/astro/main/.github/assets/vercel.svg" alt="Vercel" /></a></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

### Sponsors

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td align="center"><a href="https://sentry.io" target="_blank"><img width="147" height="40" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snowpackjs/astro/main/.github/assets/sentry.svg" alt="Sentry" /></a></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

[oc]: https://opencollective.com/astrodotbuild
