Ember & Oak

Ember & Oak is a self-directed project to showcase a polished multi-page brochure website.

The goal was to learn the Astro framework and get familiar with how things are done outside of React.

What I learned

• Astro seems to handle SSR (server side rendering) in a more straightforward way.
• The Islands Architecture makes more sense to me than how React handles components and rendering.
• You can use markdown files for page content. Better than hard-coding it directly into a React page/component.
• Astro’s SSR is easier to implement/setup than SSR with nextJS for example.

What confused me

Honestly I found it unnecessarily tedious to setup multiple fonts. In React im used to just importing them fron next/fonts or by importing a google font directly via the url and then it’s good to go after setting a variable but Astro has a few more steps…