Cloudflare is incorporating the development team behind the Astro framework. The acquisition does not change the open-source status of the project.
The Astro Technology Company, the company behind the web framework of the same name, is joining Cloudflare. Cloudflare itself announces this with a blog. A new version is being launched at the same time as the acquisition.
Astro has been used since 2021 to build content-centric websites. Large companies such as Porsche, IKEA and OpenAI use the framework, as do platforms that run on Cloudflare such as Webflow Cloud and Wix Vibe. Cloudflare itself also uses Astro internally, including for documentation and blogs.
Astro remains open source
By including the development team in its own workforce, Cloudflare wants to guarantee long-term support. Astro remains open source and MIT-licensed. The project retains its public roadmap and open governance model. Developers can continue to use the framework on any platform or cloud.
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Cloudflare also supports the broader Astro ecosystem through an ecosystem fund, together with Netlify, Sentry and Stainless, among others.
Astro 6
The acquisition coincides with the launch of the first public beta version of Astro 6. This new version introduces a renewed local development server, based on the Vite Environments API. This allows development code to run locally in the same runtime as in production, which reduces the difference between the test and live environments. This approach is not limited to Cloudflare, but can be used with any runtime that supports the Vite API.
In addition, Live Content Collections are now stable in version 6. This allows developers to integrate dynamic data in real-time without requiring a full rebuild. Astro now also supports Content Security Policies, contains simpler APIs and the Zod validation has been updated to version 4.
Astro continues to focus on content-driven web development with a server-first approach and static HTML as a basis. Developers can make parts of pages dynamic as ‘islands’ with frameworks such as React, Vue or Svelte. Cloudflare sees potential in this architecture for new platforms and applications.