Microsoft made several attempts to build their design docs using other frameworks and CMS.

Too rigid

Hard to mantain

Or migrating was painful

Others did not integrate well with their Figma workflow and the design stories they wanted to tell.

Lighweight

Support their design system library

Easy to mantain (From DevOps Side)

Extensibility (Integration with DocSearch or Algolia later)

Support the latest React version

Astro ships zero JavaScript by default

Easy to deploy

Being tool agnostic

Support React

Lighweight

Easy to mantain

Extensibility

Astro helped the Fluent team build new pages in half the time compared to their previous stack.

Astro also helped developers and designers on the team stay aligned.

Firebase’s team of 10 developers used to host their blog on Blogger.

With this CMS, they had to first write a blog post in Google Docs and then convert the draft to a Blogger document.

Even a short blog post could easily result in an hour of work before publishing.

The editing experience in Blogger was also problematic:

Images and other interactive components required developers to handcraft the HTML.

Blogger did not have profile images. You had to insert HTML and CSS to represent a profile image directly into the blog post.

A tool with a modern developer experience.

Publish blogs faster

Maintain a more performant blog

With less friction on a collaborative developer team of 10

By switching from Blogger to Astro, the time needed to publish a standard blog post went from hours to minutes.

It also used to take them 6 minutes to generate a full site with GitHub Actions.

Now, build time with GitHub Actions averages 1.5 minutes, an overall build time reduction of 75%.

Static & Dynamic

Blogging

Landing Page

Easy to mantain

Connect with a simple storage

Support Real Time

Free :D

Easy to deploy

2 WEEKS

1 DEVELOPER

Static

Blogging

Landing Page

Easy to mantain

Free :D

Easy to deploy

(Community Blog)

Lighweight

$8.43