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I spent a small amount of time looking into Astro and I didn’t get the difference with the Fresh framework created by the Deno team.. ? Fresh does this Island architecture already, and benchmarks on Astro website dont include Deno+Fresh to compare. So I’m still wondering what’s the benefit of using Deno+Astro vs. Deno+Fresh

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Astro and Fresh were both inspired by the islands idea which was iirc coined by an Etsy frontend architect and further elaborated on by the creator of Preact.

My understanding is that Astro is able to more-or-less take a component from any combo of popular frameworks and render it, whereas Fresh is currently limited to just Preact via Deno. I think the limitation is to optimize for not needing a build step, and not having to tweak the frameworks themselves like Astro does (did?).

I'm not affiliated; I've just looked at both tools before.

There are plenty of differences. Eg Fresh can only run on Deno and can only use Preact.

Sure but I’m trying to see if Astro goes further in the optimization

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