Astro is joining Cloudflare (opens in new tab)
Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare, with the Astro team continuing to develop the framework as Cloudflare employees. Astro will remain MIT-licensed, open source, portable across platforms, and governed through a public roadmap and open contributions. The partnership aims to strengthen Astro’s role as a fast, accessible framework for content-driven websites, with Astro 6 introducing major development and runtime improvements. ## What the Cloudflare Acquisition Means - Astro remains: - Open source and MIT-licensed - Open to community contributions - Supported by a public roadmap and open governance - Deployable across any cloud or hosting platform - Astro’s full-time employees are joining Cloudflare and will continue working on the framework. - Cloudflare will support the Astro Ecosystem Fund alongside partners such as Webflow, Netlify, Wix, Sentry, and Stainless. - The project’s commitment to portability and platform independence will not change. ## Why Developers Choose Astro Astro has focused on content-driven websites rather than attempting to serve every type of application equally. - **Content-driven:** Built to showcase websites’ content. - **Server-first:** Renders HTML on the server for better performance. - **Fast by default:** Designed to make slow websites difficult to build. - **Easy to use:** Accessible without deep JavaScript tooling expertise. - **Developer-focused:** Provides tools and resources intended to support successful development. Astro’s Islands Architecture supports this approach: - Most pages are delivered as fast, static HTML. - Interactive sections can be rendered as client-side “islands.” - Developers can use multiple UI frameworks on the same page, including React, Vue, Svelte, and Solid. ## Shared Vision for Web Development Cloudflare and Astro share a goal of making the web faster and easier to build on. - Astro was created in 2021 to simplify the increasingly difficult process of building fast websites. - Its simple, structured foundation also helps coding agents and AI-assisted development produce better results. - Platforms including Webflow Cloud, Wix Vibe, and Stainless use Astro to help their customers create and publish websites. - These platforms run on or integrate with Cloudflare infrastructure while using Astro as their content and application foundation. ## Astro 6 Improvements Astro 6 is entering beta, with general availability expected soon. - A redesigned development server is built on Vite’s Environments API. - With the Cloudflare Vite plugin, local development can run in `workerd`, the Cloudflare Workers runtime. - Developers can locally use production-like APIs such as: - Durable Objects - D1 - KV - Agents - The Vite Environments API is not limited to Cloudflare; other JavaScript runtimes can provide similar integrations. - Live Content Collections are now stable, allowing content to update without rebuilding the site while retaining validation and caching. - Additional features include first-class Content Security Policy support, simpler APIs, and Zod 4 support. Cloudflare’s investment is intended to give Astro greater long-term support without changing its open, portable character. Developers can try the Astro 6 beta with `npm create astro@latest -- --ref next` or upgrade an existing project using `npx @astrojs/upgrade beta`.