Starter
defaultMarketing-first base. Hero, features, blog, contact form, and legal pages. Everything from the feature grid above, none of the fluff.
marketingblogi18nresendplausible
$npm create astro-ignite my-site --template starterPreview ↗
Betav0.1.0 just shipped
Astro sites, built for AI Agents.
SEO, i18n, perf, legal, and email — pre-wired with sane defaults you actually own. No runtime dependency. No lock-in. Just code.
$npm create astro-ignite@latest my-site
~/codezsh
$npm create astro-ignite my-site
^astro-ignitev0.1.0
│
◇Template?starter
◇Project name?./my-site
◇Languages?en, es, ja
◇Email?Resend
◆Install deps?
│● Yes○ No○ pnpm○ bun
└
Lighthouse100 / 100 / 100 / 100
Bundle17.4 kB
LCP0.4 s
CLS0.00
Astro 7
Tailwind v4
MIT
What you get
Twenty things you'd otherwise build at 11pm.
You own every line. No runtime dependency on this tool — eject is free, because there's nothing to eject.
01perf
Lighthouse 100s
Mobile and desktop. CI budgets fail the build before regressions ship.
02core
Astro 7 + i18n
Native i18n, content collections, and Astro Actions. Strict Zod schemas.
03css
Tailwind v4
Layered CSS strategy. Scoped above-the-fold + critical-CSS extraction.
04seo
Typed JSON-LD
Schema.org via schema-dts. Compile-time errors instead of stale snippets.
05media
Image pipeline
AVIF + WebP, responsive srcset, LQIP placeholders, zero CLS.
06type
Self-hosted fonts
Geist Sans + Mono via astro:fonts. Subsetted, preloaded, zero CLS.
07ux
Tri-state dark mode
Light / dark / system, with anti-flash inline script. No FOUC.
08email
Working contact form
Astro Actions + Zod validation + Resend or SMTP. Wired, not a stub.
09legal
Cookies + legal
Banner, privacy, terms, and cookies templates. i18n-aware.
Templates
Two ways to start. Both ship to a 100.
Pick a template at the prompt, or pass--template. More are on the way.
Each template is a full Astro project — not a fragment. Read the source, fork it, ignore us.
Docs
starlight-styleThree-column documentation site with sidebar nav, MDX components, on-this-page TOC, breadcrumbs, and bilingual seed content.
docsmdxi18ncalloutscode-copy
$npm create astro-ignite my-docs --template docsPreview ↗
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From the blog
Notes from the build.
Writing on perf budgets, i18n, agent-friendly conventions, and the occasional rant about modern web tooling.
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A step-by-step tutorial to scaffold, customize, and deploy a working Astro blog with AI in under five minutes — from npx to a live Vercel URL.
create-astro vs astro-ignite: which Astro CLI to use
An honest comparison between create-astro, the official CLI, and astro-ignite. See the differences, tradeoffs, and pick the right one for your project.
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Stop yak-shaving the first 30%.
One install, a finished Astro site you own outright. Eject any time — there's nothing to eject from.
$npm create astro-ignite@latest