Astro and the Return of the Server — The Lightning Cut

The lightning cut: 15 minutes on why the server is back — and where the AI agents fit into it.

Why is Astro fast, why does it feel different, and why is it gaining ground?

For years, web development kept pushing more into the browser. Astro takes the opposite bet: render to HTML by default and send JavaScript only to the parts of the page that need it.

This talk is a peek behind the curtain at the ideas that make that work – islands of interactivity, doing the rendering before it reaches the browser, a framework that stays library agnostic, and the bigger shift it belongs to: the web quietly rediscovering the server.