Webflow to Astro – only when you have outgrown the platform.
Webflow to Astro is a rebuild that keeps your design and re-models your content. It pays off when you hit CMS limits, scale localisation or want version control – we tell you which case you are, even when the answer is “stay”.
A rebuild, not a converter
There is no official Astro migration guide for Webflow – unlike Next.js, Gatsby or WordPress. The real path is exporting or re-implementing the design and rebuilding the content model in Astro. We say that upfront, not halfway through.
We build Webflow too
vincubate is also a Webflow agency with a client site running in production. We have no interest in talking you away from a platform that works for you.
Measured, not claimed
We promise no percentage. We measure Core Web Vitals, loading behaviour and visibility before and after the move – with field data from your own site, not third-party benchmarks.
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Got a project in mind?
Describe it in three sentences – you get an honest first assessment, usually within 24 hours.
Webflow to Astro: the answer first.
Most Webflow sites should stay on Webflow.
- If a marketing team builds pages without a developer and the visual editor is the workflow, a migration costs more than it returns.
The move pays off under specific conditions
- You are running into CMS collection and item limits on larger content sets
- You pay per-site hosting for a growing portfolio
- Localisation is getting expensive
- You want the site in version control with code review and CI
- You need server-side logic or integrations the platform model does not reach – or you want full ownership of the front-end output
There is no official Webflow migration guide for Astro.
- Unlike Next.js, Gatsby or WordPress, the documented path here is: export or re-implement the design and rebuild the content model in Astro.
- It is a migration in the sense of “design stays, technology is new” – not an automated conversion.
The editorial question is the crux.
- After Webflow your team needs a new home for content: content collections in the repository, or a headless CMS with a real editing interface.
- Skip that decision and you get a faster site that nobody maintains.
Editing by chat is the third answer.
- We build on a modern AI stack: change a text, add a blog post, swap an image, correct a price – as a message, for example through a Telegram bot.
- See edit your website by chat.
We build both.
- If Webflow is the right answer for you, we will build it in Webflow – see Webflow agency.
- The platform-level comparison lives at Astro vs Webflow.
Prefer to talk it through?
A short call clarifies scope, effort and whether we are a fit.
Move – or stay.
These two columns are the filter we apply in the first call. We deliberately put them near the top of this page rather than at the bottom, because the right-hand column wins more often than the left. If you recognise yourself on the right, you can skip the rest of this page – and a project that would not have helped you.
Move to Astro when …
The platform is not the problem. The scale of what you are doing has grown out of it.
- Your content set is pushing against CMS collection and item limits: thousands of entries, many collections, deep reference chains. Astro content collections read content at build time and are explicitly designed to handle thousands of entries.
- You operate a portfolio of many sites and pay hosting per site. Prerendered Astro output runs on ordinary hosting or a CDN – the cost curve behaves differently.
- Your localisation is getting expensive: several languages, several markets, the same content in variants. In a typed content model, language is a field in the schema rather than a duplicated site.
- You want the website in version control: branches, pull requests, real code review, automated checks and a CI deployment. With Astro that is the normal state, not an add-on.
- You need server-side logic or integrations the platform model does not reach – your own API routes, syncing with an ERP or PIM, precomputing data at build time.
- You want full ownership of the front-end output: which markup ships, which JavaScript loads, which image formats get served. Astro strips all client-side JavaScript from components by default; interactivity is added back per component, on purpose.
Stay on Webflow when …
This is not the consolation column. It is the more frequent recommendation – and we will deliver it with you instead of sending you elsewhere.
- Your marketing team ships pages daily, without a developer and without a deployment. That autonomy is worth more than any architecture debate.
- Your site is design-led and the visual editor is the actual workflow: campaign pages, interactions, fast iteration on layout.
- Your content volume stays modest – a few dozen pages, a blog, a reference list. The limits people migrate for are theoretical for you.
- Nobody in the company wants to work in a repository and no budget is planned for someone who does. Tools nobody operates turn into risk.
- You relaunched recently. A second rebuild within two years is rarely the best use of the budget – often conversion optimisation on the existing site returns more.
- Your real problem is not the platform but structure, content or visibility. An SEO audit answers that far more cheaply than a migration.
Unsure about the stack?
We will tell you when another tool fits your project better.
Where teams actually get stuck in Webflow.
None of these is a design flaw in the platform. They are the points where a project leaves the assumptions a visual website platform is built on. If you nod at two or three of them, the conversation is worth having.
The content set outgrows the model
Collections and items are capped, and reference fields turn a clean model into a nested one quickly. Teams running locations, products, authors and categories at the same time do not notice this in year one. They notice it in year three, usually when a new category no longer fits.
Hosting becomes a portfolio calculation
One site costs little. Twelve sites for twelve brands, markets or subsidiaries cost twelve times, every month. With prerendered Astro output the bill tracks delivery and operations rather than the number of sites you run.
Localisation does not scale with you
Multi-language is a paid add-on on a visual platform and, in day-to-day editing, often a duplication problem. In a typed content model the language is a field in the schema: same structure, several variants, one build.
No real code review, no CI
Changes on a visual site go live when somebody publishes. There is no branch, no pull request, no automated test gate and no rollback through history. For regulated environments or teams with an engineering process, that alone is the reason to move.
Integrations stop halfway
Wiring a form into a CRM is fine. Pulling prices from an ERP, reconciling stock, exposing your own endpoints, merging content from several sources: that is where the platform model ends. Astro prerenders by default and switches on server rendering per route where a page genuinely needs to be dynamic.
The front end is not really yours
You own your design and your content, but not the markup that ships, the JavaScript that comes with it or the image pipeline. When load time is a business goal rather than a Lighthouse score, some teams want exactly that control – and that path leads into a repository. How we measure and approach it: Astro performance optimisation.
Got a project in mind?
Describe it in three sentences – you get an honest first assessment, usually within 24 hours.
What carries over – and what gets rebuilt.
The most honest sentence about this migration is: the design stays, the technology is new. This table is the long version. We walk through it row by row in the first call, so nothing in the proposal comes as a surprise.
| Area | What happens in the move | Honest verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Design & layout | The visual result carries over: either the exported static output as a starting point, or a clean re-implementation as a component library. Typography, grid, spacing and states stay yours. | Preserved – as a rebuild. Nothing converts automatically here. The effort tracks how many genuinely different page types you have, not how many pages. |
| Content (CMS items) | Existing entries come out through CSV export and the Webflow API and move into Markdown files or your new CMS – images, slugs and metadata included. | Transferable, with cleanup. Rich text fields almost always need normalising, and references between collections have to be re-linked. |
| CMS structure (collections & fields) | Your collections become a schema: content collections with Zod validation in the repository, or a model in a headless CMS. | Re-modelled, not copied. This is the best chance you will get to clean up fields that grew organically. If a required field is missing afterwards, the build fails – not the live site. |
| Interactions & animation | Scroll effects, hover states and transitions get rebuilt – with CSS, small scripts, or as an island using a React, Svelte, Vue or Alpine component. | Rebuilt. The result can usually be matched one to one. Very elaborate timeline animation is a line item in the proposal, not a freebie. |
| Forms | The platform form endpoint goes away. Replacements are a server-rendered route, a form service, or a direct connection to your CRM – with spam protection and GDPR-compliant handling. | Needs a replacement, and it is routine. Decide it early: it determines whether you need a runtime at all or can stay fully static. |
| Hosting & operations | Webflow hosting goes away. By default the entire Astro site is prerendered and shipped as static HTML; routes that need on-demand rendering get an adapter for the target runtime, such as Node, Vercel or Cloudflare. | Changes completely. In return, operations become transparent: your repository, your deployment, your domain. What it costs to run is broken down at Astro development cost. |
| Editorial workflow | The visual editor goes away. In its place: Markdown in the repository, a headless CMS with preview and permissions – or editing by chat. | The crux of the whole migration. Skip this row and you end up with a faster website nobody maintains. We settle it before the first commit. |
| URLs, rankings & SEO | URL structure is carried over, or a complete redirect map is built. Metadata, structured data, sitemap and robots.txt move across and get verified. | Plannable, not automatic. Rankings are lost in migrations through missing redirects, not through the framework. That is why the redirect map is a work package here, not a checkbox. |
Prefer to talk it through?
A short call clarifies scope, effort and whether we are a fit.
How a Webflow to Astro migration runs.
Seven steps, and the first one has an open outcome. If step one says “stay”, the project ends there – and you still walk away with a basis for the decision.
Assessment with an open outcome
We look at your site: page types, collections and volumes, integrations, languages, who changes what and how often. It ends in a recommendation – move, move partially, or stay. The last one happens, and it is not a wasted meeting.
Design the content model
Before a line of code exists we define the schema: which content types, which fields, which are required, which relationships. With content collections that becomes a Zod schema with TypeScript types derived from it; with a headless CMS it becomes the model in that system.
Carry the design over into components
We take the visual result of your Webflow site and turn it into a component library: layouts, sections, states. The value outlasts the migration – future pages come out of that library faster than out of a builder.
Move and verify the content
Export via CSV and API, transform into the new model, images into the built-in image pipeline. Then an entry-by-entry check: whatever is missing is reported by the schema at build time, not by a customer after launch.
Decide and set up the editorial path
Content collections, a headless CMS, or editing by chat – or a combination. We set up the chosen path, define fields and approval stages, and train your team on it before the old site is switched off.
Launch with a redirect map and measurement
Complete redirects, metadata and structured data carried over, sitemap resubmitted. Before the switch we record your Core Web Vitals and visibility, and after the switch we record the same – so the effect is your own number, not our claim.
Operate and evolve
Astro follows semantic versioning, and security fixes are provided for exactly one previous major version. We therefore plan upgrades as a small recurring task rather than a project. How that works: Astro support and maintenance.
Unsure about the stack?
We will tell you when another tool fits your project better.
How long this takes – and what moves the range.
Prices are not on this page for a good reason: they depend on your project, and a number without an assessment would be a guess. Timelines we do publish, because you have to plan around them. The ranges below are our honest expectation for the way we work – counted from kick-off to the moment the domain switches over.
- First read: a few days – You send the URL, a rough sense of content volume and what triggered the question. Back comes a recommendation – move, move partially, or stay – with a rough range attached. We do not invoice for that.
- Focused marketing site: 3 to 5 weeks – Up to roughly five genuinely different page types, one language, content carried over rather than rewritten, editing through Markdown in the repository, one form wired into a service or your CRM.
- Site with a blog and an editorial team: 6 to 10 weeks – Several collections with real volume, a headless CMS with roles and preview, a grown image library, training for your team, and a redirect map that runs well past a handful of lines.
- Multilingual or integrated: 12 weeks and up – Two or more languages, syncing with an ERP or PIM, your own endpoints, search, elaborate animation, sign-off across several departments. Open-ended at the top – we would rather say that beforehand than afterwards.
- Content freeze: 2 to 5 days – Shortly before the switch, content freezes so the old and the new site do not drift apart. That is the only window in which your team genuinely has to wait – the old site stays online until the switch.
- Watching period after launch: 8 to 12 weeks – Index coverage, redirect errors, Search Console, Core Web Vitals in the field. We promise no recovery time for rankings – we watch them and step in when something slips.
What moves the range
The number of genuinely different templates, not the number of pages. Then: content volume, whether content is migrated or rewritten, whether a CMS is involved, how many languages exist, how many systems get connected, and how deep the animation work goes.
The most common reason for delay
Approval cycles on your side. When copy, images or legal text are waiting on a sign-off, the project stalls – not the development. So we plan fixed review windows and write them into the proposal.
What we will not do
We will not name a number of weeks before we have counted your page types and seen your collections. Committing to a date before the assessment is guessing. How we run projects: IT project management.
Got a project in mind?
Describe it in three sentences – you get an honest first assessment, usually within 24 hours.
We build both – which is why we can advise honestly.
Almost every agency writing a page about moving from Webflow to Astro sells only one of the two. Which means the answer is fixed before the call begins. Here it is not: vincubate is also a Webflow agency, we have a Webflow client site running in production, and we will build your next one in Webflow too if that is the right answer. That is not a politeness line. It is the commercial basis of this page.
The underlying comparison fits in one sentence. Webflow sells autonomy to people who do not want to write code. Astro sells control to teams that have an engineering process, or want one. Both are legitimate goals, and they do not exclude each other morally – only economically. The real question is which of the two will cost you more over the next three years if you do not have it. The full side-by-side lives at Astro vs Webflow; if you want the framework explained from scratch first, start at what is Astro.
A middle path people overlook
Migration is not all or nothing. A pattern we see repeatedly: the campaign and landing page layer deliberately stays in the visual tool so marketing keeps shipping without a developer, while the blog, documentation, location or product pages – everything generated from structured data – move to Astro. Two systems, one domain, clearly separated responsibilities. It costs a little operational discipline and often saves an entire migration project.
The real worry: do we lose our editors?
This is the objection that comes up with every Webflow team at exactly the same point, and it is a fair one. The visual editor is the reason marketing can work without filing a ticket. Giving that up with nothing in its place trades load time for dependency, which is a bad deal.
Our answer is a modern AI stack on top of the build. Concretely: you maintain your website in a chat, for example through a Telegram bot. Change a text, add a blog post, swap an image, correct a price – as a message, not as a CMS session. It works because Astro content lives in a typed, schema-validated content model: content collections with Zod validation, or a headless CMS with an API. Both are addressable by a machine. The schema doubles as the guardrail system – an agent can only fill fields that exist, in formats that validate. A bad edit fails the build rather than the live site. And every change lands as a reviewable commit and a deploy: with history, review and rollback.
The point is less the technology than the audience. This suits a large enterprise with an editorial team just as well as the sole trader or the SME owner who is never going to open a CMS. Anyone who can send a voice message can maintain their website. That chat agents are day-to-day work here rather than slideware is evidenced by our own WhatsApp AI agent, which runs in production.
And the limits, so this does not turn into marketing language: the chat route does not replace an editorial system for large teams with multi-stage approval workflows – it complements it. Editorial responsibility stays with you; an agent drafts and writes, it does not decide. Structural changes – new page types, layout, navigation – remain development work. And the scope is defined per project: which fields, which collections, which approval stage. What that looks like day to day: edit your website by chat.
Both paths in house
Webflow and Astro are services of the same team here. The recommendation happens in the first call, not in the proposal.
What we can prove
A Webflow client site runs live. We do not have a public Astro client reference yet – here we convince with method, not logos.
When it becomes a product
Sometimes a website turns into a product. Then we build you a custom web application instead of a website.
Assess first, migrate second.
Send us the URL of your Webflow site and three sentences on what triggered the question. You get an honest read on whether the move adds up for you – including “stay where you are” when that is the truth.
Webflow to Astro at a glance.
The short version of this page – for whoever has to summarise it in a meeting. The last row is our opinion, not a description.
| Question | Short answer |
|---|---|
| Automated conversion | Does not exist. No official migration guide for Webflow, and no converter we would trust. The path runs through exporting or re-implementing the design and rebuilding the content model. |
| What stays, what is new | Design and content carry over. New: the content model, the editorial route, form handling, interactions and hosting. |
| Typical timeline | 3 to 5 weeks for a focused marketing site, 6 to 10 weeks with a blog and an editorial team, 12 weeks and up when multilingual or connected to other systems. |
| Editing afterwards | Content collections in the repository, a headless CMS with preview and permissions – or editing by chat. Settled before the first commit. |
| Forms and automations | Need a replacement: a server-rendered route, a form service, or a direct connection to your CRM and automation tooling. Routine – but not automatic. |
| Interactions and Lottie | Interactions are rebuilt with CSS, small scripts, or an island. Lottie files are JSON and carry over unchanged. |
| SEO risk | Manageable when the redirect map is a work package. Rankings are lost in migrations through missing redirects, not through the framework. |
| The Webflow subscription | Keeps running until the new site is live and verified, and is cancelled only afterwards. Before that we build a complete archive: CSV export, API dump, static export, image library. |
| Our take | Move only when at least two of the points under "Move to Astro when …" apply at the same time. A single bottleneck can nearly always be solved inside Webflow, and we would rather help you do that. When two apply – say collection limits plus multilingual, or portfolio hosting plus missing code review – the move pays for itself over the lifespan a website has anyway. The most expensive mistake here is never the choice of platform. It is migrating without settling the editorial route first. |
Prefer to talk it through?
A short call clarifies scope, effort and whether we are a fit.
Frequently asked questions about migrating Webflow to Astro.
The questions that actually come up in first calls – from the big one down to the details a migration tends to fail on.
Honestly: should we just stay on Webflow?
Very often, yes. Satisfaction is a strong argument when it comes to a website platform – it usually means your team works without friction. A move only pays off once you can name a concrete bottleneck: collection and item limits, per-site hosting across a portfolio, expensive localisation, missing code review, integrations you cannot reach. Without one of those, we would rather keep building for you in Webflow – for us the two are the same business.
Is there a tool that converts a Webflow site to Astro automatically?
No, and we would not trust one. Astro maintains official migration guides for a range of source systems – Next.js, Gatsby and WordPress among them – but not for Webflow. The real path is exporting the static output or re-implementing the design cleanly, and rebuilding the content model in Astro. The result looks like it did before; the technology underneath is new.
Can we export our Webflow code and simply keep using it?
Partly. The export gives you the static output – HTML, CSS, JavaScript and assets – and it is genuinely useful as a design reference. What it does not give you: your CMS content as clean data, the form endpoint, and anything the platform runs server-side. Whether the export is available on your plan is one of the first things we check. We treat it as a reference, not a foundation: the generated code carries the builder class structure, and we would rather not keep that in your repository for years.
How long does a Webflow to Astro migration take?
A focused marketing site with few page types: 3 to 5 weeks. A site with a blog, several collections and an editorial team: 6 to 10 weeks. Multilingual, or connected to an ERP, a PIM or a search service: 12 weeks and up. What moves the range is mainly the number of genuinely different templates, the content volume, whether content is migrated or rewritten – and the approval cycles on your side. The breakdown is in the timeline section above.
We have 4,000 blog posts. Will there be downtime during the switch?
Your old site stays online until the new one is ready. We build in parallel on a staging address, migrate the posts there, and verify them both automatically and by sampling. The switch itself happens through DNS or hosting – minutes, not days. There is still one window: the content freeze of two to five days before the switch, so new posts do not end up only in the old system. We do not guarantee zero downtime; we schedule the switch for a low-traffic period and keep the old state available as a fallback.
Will we lose our rankings in the migration?
Not if the migration is planned. Rankings are lost in projects like this through missing redirects, dropped metadata and forgotten structured data – not through the framework. We either keep the existing URL structure or build a complete redirect map, carry over metadata and schema, resubmit the sitemap, and measure visibility and Core Web Vitals before and after the switch on your own site.
We are hitting the item limits on our CMS collections. Is that reason enough to move?
It is the most common one – but check the cheaper route first. The specific limits in Webflow depend on the plan and change over time, so we will not quote numbers here; we look at them in your workspace instead. Sometimes a plan change or a tidied-up data model buys you another two years. If that clearly will not be enough, Astro is the structurally different answer: content collections read content at build time and are explicitly designed to handle thousands of entries.
What happens to our forms, to Logic, and to the automations behind them?
The platform form endpoint goes away with the move – the point teams underestimate most often. So we write down beforehand what a submission actually triggers today: confirmation email, internal notification, CRM record, conditional recipients, branching, redirect to a thank-you page. Then we rebuild it – as a server-rendered route, through a form service, or directly in your CRM and automation tooling, including spam protection and GDPR-compliant handling. Existing submissions get exported before anything is switched off.
What happens to our interactions from the Webflow interaction editor?
They get rebuilt, not carried over. Those interactions depend on the platform runtime library; without it they do not run. So we go through them one by one: scroll effects, hover states, reveals and transitions can usually be matched one to one with CSS and small scripts. Elaborate timeline animation becomes an island using a React, Svelte, Vue or Alpine component – loaded only once it enters the viewport. Very complex sequences are a line item in the proposal, not a freebie.
We use Lottie animations. Do they still work?
Yes. Lottie files are JSON and platform-independent – they carry over unchanged. Afterwards they are played by a player we mount deliberately as an island: only on the pages where the animation actually appears, and loaded only when it enters the viewport. This is one of the few points where the move usually makes the site noticeably lighter, because the player no longer ships with every page.
What happens to our Webflow subscription? Can we cancel right away?
Please do not. The subscription runs until the new site is live and verified – until then the old site is your fallback. Before you cancel we build a complete archive: a CSV export of every collection, a dump through the API, the static export, and the full image library. After that you can cancel the site plan and, if it applies, the workspace; watch your billing period, because annual plans run to the end of the term. Cancelling first and discovering a missing field second is the most expensive possible order.
We sell through Webflow Ecommerce. Does the shop come with us?
Not as a whole – and this is a case where we advise staying particularly often. Astro is a framework for the presentation layer, not a shop system: cart, checkout, payment, tax and order management would have to come from a commerce backend you then also operate. That is a project of its own, not an add-on to a migration. It becomes worthwhile when your catalogue or your processes have outgrown the platform anyway – and an e-commerce process review settles that faster and more cheaply than a migration proposal.
What does moving from Webflow to Astro cost?
Three things set the range: the number of genuinely different page types – not the number of pages – the depth of the content model, and the integrations such as CMS, forms, CRM or inventory systems. A focused marketing site with a blog sits well below a multilingual presence with data migration. After the first call you get a transparent estimate with the assumptions written out; the cost drivers are broken down at Astro development cost.
How does our marketing team edit content once the Webflow editor is gone?
Through one of three routes, and they combine. First: content as Markdown in the repository, read type-safely through content collections – good for technically confident teams. Second: a headless CMS with an editing interface, preview and permissions – the closest thing to the editor you know. Third: editing by chat through a bot, which is realistic for text edits, new posts, image swaps and price corrections even without a technical team, because the schema is the guardrail and every change lands as a reviewable commit. Layout, new page types and multi-stage approvals stay outside it. Which route fits is decided by your editorial reality, not by our technical preference.
Does a niche framework make it harder to hire developers?
Less than the question suggests – though it is a fair one. An Astro component is at heart HTML, CSS and JavaScript or TypeScript; anyone who can build for the web is productive within days. On top of that there are official integrations for React, Preact, Svelte, Vue, SolidJS and Alpine.js, so existing components and existing team knowledge stay usable. Astro is MIT-licensed, so there is no licensing gate either. To be fair, the reverse holds too: genuinely good Webflow work is specialist knowledge as well.
Can we develop the site further in house afterwards?
Yes, and it is explicitly designed for that. You get an ordinary repository with a Node toolchain, documented scripts for development, build and deployment, the content schema, and a handover for your team. There is no proprietary piece of ours in between. If your developer wants to take over tomorrow, she can – we hand over completely or keep supporting, whichever you need. What ongoing operation looks like here: Astro support and maintenance.
What happens if you disappear, or if we part ways?
Your website keeps running. The repository, the hosting account and the domain are in your name from day one, not ours. The framework is open source under the MIT licence, the toolchain is standard, the content model is documented, and every change sits in the commit history. There is no key only we hold. That is exactly why we make sure nothing important lives solely in our heads – with a small team that is not a platitude, it is risk management.
Who is liable if something is broken after launch?
We are. Before the switch we put in writing what counts as a defect: missing redirects, content that did not carry over, functionality that does not behave as agreed. We fix those under warranty, without a separate invoice. Separate from that is ongoing operation – new requirements, upgrades, content changes; that is what maintenance covers. We draw that line in the proposal, not after something breaks.
Is Astro really faster than Webflow?
We deliberately quote no percentage, because such numbers say nothing without your site. What can be said: Astro prerenders by default and ships static HTML, and it strips all client-side JavaScript from components by default, with interactivity re-enabled per component. Whether that makes a measurable difference for you depends on the site you have today. So we measure before and after using your own field data instead of third-party benchmarks.
Can we keep part of the site and migrate only some of it?
Yes, and it makes sense more often than it sounds. A common split: campaign and landing pages stay in the visual tool so marketing keeps working without a developer, while blog, documentation, location or product pages move to Astro because they come from structured data. Two systems under one domain, with clearly separated ownership. It takes some operational discipline and often saves an entire migration project.
Is Astro free?
Yes. Astro is free open-source software under the MIT licence, with no licence fees. What costs money is development, hosting and operation – and with fully static delivery, hosting is usually cheaper than a per-site platform subscription.
Does Astro need a server?
By default, no. Astro prerenders the entire site and ships static HTML that can sit on ordinary hosting or a CDN. Only routes with on-demand rendering need a runtime and a matching adapter, for example for Node, Vercel or Cloudflare.
Is Astro good for SEO?
The technical foundation is good: server-first rendering, static HTML by default, built-in image optimisation, and full control over metadata, sitemap and structured data. Rankings do not follow from that alone – those come from content, structure and links. The framework only removes the technical excuses.
Who is behind Astro?
Astro is an open-source project developed in public on GitHub – under the MIT licence, copyright 2021 Fred K. Schott. The current line is Astro 7. The project follows semantic versioning and ships security fixes for exactly one previous major version.
Move or stay – we will tell you which.
Describe your Webflow site briefly and what prompted the question. You get an honest read on effort, benefit and risk – usually within 24 hours.
Request a Webflow migration assessment.
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