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jenxi.com Vision alchemist crafting strategic innovation & AI adoption. Bridging startups to China’s ecosystem advantage. Building a cyberbrain. Registered pharmacist × Brand strategist × Storyteller
After moving my site to Astro, I’ve become something of an enthusiastic convert, like those people who discover a new interest in their forties and suddenly can’t stop talking about it. So it’s inevitable that I get a lot of curious enquiries about sites built with Astro.
Astro has a showcase of sites that demonstrates the framework’s versatility. The wide spectrum of site types shows the amazing possibilities building with Astro. However, it is a pretty long list of over a thousand sites spanning 49 pages as of writing. I prefer to send examples I feel is more likely to resonate with the person asking.
Instead of frantically recalling example sites off the top of my head to share each time, I’m compiling this living document both as a reference for myself and a resource for people curious about Astro, and our web design clients. Consider this my digital cabinet of curiosities—a collection of sites that showcase the infinite possibilities when you embrace Astro’s philosophy of shipping less Javascript.
Personal sites
- Maggie Appleton – her site was on NextJS before she moved to Astro with no visible change in the front end, but she wrote briefly about how the backend is less complex.
- Koos Looijesteijn – I have no data to back this up so it is most likely just psychological, or due to prefetching, but his site feels faster after he moved from Jekyll to Astro.
- Nic Chan – lovely retro Windows look that is both nostalgic and nerdgasmic
- Exerra – minimal yet full of character
- Angelika Cathor – great example of minimalist branding
- dragon’s vibe by sirlan – a throw back to Geocities aesthetics
- HiDeoo
- Akira Hirata
- Kuraunaito
- Izzi Ink Astronaut
Portfolios
- Danielle Levitt
- Harry Atkins
- Rhys Jones
- Arravind
- Alessio Atzeni
- Hyperlaunch
- Cyborg Fish
- Trapti Rahangdale
- Websmith
- Tomo
- Federico – sleek use of bento-style design
Blogs
Brands
- Porsche
- Lucid
- IKEA
- Michelin
- Scout Motor
- Jamie Oliver – I’m in the Uncle Roger camp when it comes to cooking, but the site design is pretty palatable. I love how the recipe pages are laid out. *Chef’s kiss*.
- Dilmah Tea
Celebrities
Fan sites
- WuxiaSociety – my personal project wuxia fan site
- MechaBay – my other pet project Gundam and mecha fan site
- Centiskor – A Pokémon fan site
Corporate sites
- Engineering @The Guardian
- With Digital by Kodansha
- Dodonut
- Varda
- Futurefabric
- Frontribe – futuristic vibes
- Little Stack
- Hello Humans – delighting with details
- Samaya AI
- Overlayed
- Sweeney Studio
Technology sites
- Proton
- Cloudflare’s Documentation – great showcase of Astro Starlight documentation theme. Check out the migration process.
- Cloudflare AI
- Netlify – Astro’s official deployment partner
- Netlify CLI command reference – built with Astro Starlight
- Google’s Firebase blog
- Google’s Designcember
- Microsoft’s Fluent 2 guide
- Kakao Pay blog
- Trivago Tech site
- DatoCMS – they wrote about why they moved to Astro and the benefits
- NordVPN
- OpenAuth
- OpenMoji
- TransactPay
- Webcore
- Ark UI
Ecommerce sites
- Wild – beautiful design
- IKEA – listing it here again because it is also ecommerce
- Running Supply
- Genuio
- Replicant
- Miniwalker
Community sites
- WuxiaSociety — A wuxia fan site
- ITK – Los Angeles curated events calendar
- 海棠诗社 – a Chinese poetry community
- NAOSI – Dalian University of Technology’s Internet and Open Source Society
Directories
Resource sites
- Kidney.wiki
- SakuraPass
- Style Dictionary
- KAPLAY – open source library for HTML games that really emphasises the fun
- Patchstack Academy
- 第一在线工具 – free online tools
Landing page
Suggest a site
Know a site built with Astro that I should check out? Shoot me a message on any of the platforms listed here.