Astro or Next for a content site in 2026
A decision framework, not a benchmark war. When Astro's zero-JS default wins, when Next's app model earns its weight, and the one question that settles most arguments.
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Personal Dev Why I rebuilt oriz.in from scratch
Thirteen orphan repos, one rejected AdSense application, and a decision to consolidate everything onto a single Astro 6 deploy on Cloudflare.
Engineering 7 minDev Building a personal dev tools site on the Cloudflare free tier
Real free-tier limits, the no-card-on-file rule, and why Cloudflare beats Vercel Hobby for an AdSense-monetized indie site.
Engineering 8 minDev Astro 6 Content Collections: a practical guide
Migrating from the legacy collections API to the Content Layer, modeling 1,864 book summary pages with one Zod schema, and why Astro.glob is gone.
Engineering 9 minDev Building a JAMstack Website with Astro 6 in 2026
Learn to build fast, modern JAMstack websites with Astro 6 in 2026. Complete guide covering setup, islands architecture, content collections, and deployment.
Engineering 15 minDev shadcn/ui without a framework: just Astro islands
Using shadcn/ui copy-paste components in Astro 6 with React 19 islands. Why I rejected Park UI, DaisyUI, and Mantine, and how I picked 15 components instead of 50.
Engineering 8 minDev Building Chirag Singhal's blog: A Zero-Cost, High-Performance Blog with Astro & Cloudflare
A deep dive into how I built this blog from scratch — the architecture decisions, tech stack, automation, and features that make it fast, free, and developer-friendly.
EngineeringDev Anatomy of blog.oriz.in — How I Built a Zero-Cost, High-Performance Blog Platform
A deep-dive analysis of the blog.oriz.in repository: architecture, component design, deployment automation, coding conventions, and lessons learned from building a production Astro blog.
EngineeringDev Building Client-Side Only Sites with Astro + React on Cloudflare Pages
How to build fast, free, client-side SPA using Astro's static output and React, deployable on Cloudflare Pages with zero server costs.
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