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From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign

Jacob Wenger's online garden

While Gatsby has evolved, Astro emerged as a fresh alternative, ultimately offering a smoother developer experience and enhanced site performance. Gatsby generates static HTML at build time, then hydrates into a Single Page Application (SPA) using React, with navigations being handled in JavaScript. Astro is designed as a Multi-Page Application (MPA) by default, shipping minimal JavaScript and delivering static HTML via full page reloads.

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