Articles on Astro, web performance, design systems, and building with Astro Rocket.
How to install, configure, and deploy Astro Rocket — covering site.config.ts, brand colours, navigation, writing posts, and deploying to Vercel.
A complete walkthrough of Astro Rocket's configuration options: 12 colour themes, OKLCH colours, typography, radius and shadow tokens, header styles, dark mode, and more.
A deep dive into every animation layer in Astro Rocket: the eased hero entrance, staggered cascades, scroll-reveal, and how it all stays smooth without a JS animation library.
Astro Rocket ships with 57 production-ready components from the Velocity library — buttons, cards, dialogs, forms, data display, and full page-structure components. All accessible, all themed.
Astro Rocket's hero has an animated scroll indicator: two bouncing chevrons that fade in after the hero animation and disappear the moment you start scrolling. Here's how every part of it works.
Astro Rocket's back-to-top button now has a circular SVG progress ring that fills as you scroll. It's brand-coloured, theme-aware, and runs entirely in CSS and a small inline script.
Astro Rocket's contact form is wired up but needs three things to actually deliver email: a Resend account, a verified domain, and one environment variable on Vercel.
Astro Rocket now has a scroll progress bar: a thin brand-coloured line that fills as you scroll. Here's how it works, where it lives, and how to enable it on any page.
Astro Rocket handles structured data, Open Graph, canonical URLs, sitemaps, and more out of the box. Here's exactly what ships and where to configure it.
Astro Rocket uses a three-tier token architecture with OKLCH colors. Change one value and the entire site updates. Here's how it works and how to make it yours.
Astro Rocket's hero headline cycles through words with a typing animation. Learn how it works, how to tune every speed and pause, and how to disable it entirely.