Astro and the move to MDX

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Snowpack

This is somewhat reminiscent of the Astro devs’ decision late last year to transition Astro from their own Snowpack platform to Vite. It wasn’t easy, but the performance win was significant.

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Hugo

. . . Larger sites don’t refresh all that quickly when you edit either Markdown or an .astro file . . . . Where refresh-in-dev-mode speed is concerned, all the other competitors currently have an edge on Astro for this item, with the stunningly fast Hugo obviously leading the pack.

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Eleventy

Based on my tests, the move to MDX looks like a winner. In dev mode, edits to “watched” files show up virtually immediately (I’d say Astro's MDX DX, so to speak, is very similar to that of Eleventy’s with plain Markdown). This could simplify a move to Astro for some folks with big, Markdown-heavy sites, folks who simply couldn’t stomach the molasses-like DX that they’d encountered before Astro/MDX interactivity became a thing.

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