Astro compared

Astro vs Webflow

Most marketing sites should stay on Webflow. Some of them eventually become software projects. This page is about knowing when you have crossed that line.

Astro vs WordPress

WordPress runs an enormous share of the web and most of those sites should stay on it. The question is whether yours is still a website or has quietly become a software project that somebody has to keep patched.

Astro vs Framer

Framer is the best design tool on this list and the hardest to get anything out of. Both of those are true at once, and which one matters depends on who needs to change the site next.

Astro vs Squarespace

Squarespace is a good answer for a site built once and edited occasionally. The question is whether the template is still helping you or has become the reason three things on your list cannot be done.

Astro vs Shopify

This is not a choice between two platforms. It is a decision about where the line goes between the site that explains the product and the store that sells it, and the answer for a working store is almost never to move the store.

Astro vs Lovable

The code is already yours and already in a repository, so nothing here is about getting out. It is about whether a generated single-page application is the right shape for a site whose job is to be found and read.

Astro vs Base44

Base44 generates the application, the database, the authentication and the hosting together, which is a powerful default while you are building a product. Astro starts making sense when part of what you built has become something simpler: a public website whose job is to be read, published and maintained.

Astro vs Bolt

Bolt is built to generate and iterate on applications. Astro is built around pages that can start as HTML and add application runtime where it is useful. The question is which parts of the project still need application architecture.

Astro vs v0

v0 writes good React, and all of it is React. That is the right default for an application and an expensive one for a page that is mostly words, which is the only real question on this page.