This section addresses common questions that people have when they found about .
The term has gained some popularity lately, as a metaphor for a mostly static page (the sea), sprinkled with interactive sections (the islands).
With the page is pre-rendered just like in server-side rendering, but JS is automatically added for the interactive bits, making it easier to use than manually attaching JS to existing elements, and more optimal than hydrating the entire page.
I started working on because I wanted VitePress + Astro using instead of Snowpack.
philosophy is to provide a smooth integration with Vite.js and its wonderful plugin ecosystem, and enable using components from any frameworks so that you can focus on shipping value.
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There are more mature tools that might be a better choice, such as Vuepress.
The goal of this project is to combine the ease of use and development experience of building a site with Vue, while effortlessly shipping a zero JS site as if you were using Jekyll or eleventy.
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builds upon the ideas of old and new frameworks for static-site generation.
Pull requests to add more comparisons are welcome!
Love VitePress! Highly recommend it for most documentation websites. This site uses mostly for dogfooding purposes.
The main difference is that supports partial hydration, so you can ship JS only for the interactive parts of the page. Currently, partial hydration in VitePress is a manual process, and its default mode is targeted at building single-page applications.
VitePress has an MPA mode to strip away all JS. In that happens automatically if you don't use hydration directives.
Use VitePress if you are building a documentation website, don't need partial hydration, or if it has to be a single-page application.
When migrating an existing site from VitePress to , you might want to disable prettyUrls.
Astro is the main inspiration for partial hydration in .
Now that Astro is moving to Vite.js, the differences will become smaller.
The following is a list of features and differences to help you compare:
.astro file format. In you use Vue or MDX pagespaginate helper. In you have to do that manually.Use Astro if you are not familiar with Vue, or don't like its template syntax.
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