Astro joins Cloudflare

The Astro Technology Company, creator of the Astro web framework, is now part of Cloudflare. Astro has become a standard choice for content-driven sites, used by brands from Porsche and IKEA to AI companies like Opencode and OpenAI. Cloudflare itself relies on Astro for its developer docs, website, landing pages, and blog. Platforms built on Cloudflare infrastructure — including Webflow Cloud and Wix Vibe — have adopted Astro to power the sites their customers create.

The full Astro team is joining Cloudflare, and development on the framework will continue. The project remains open source under the MIT license, with a public roadmap and open governance. The Astro Ecosystem Fund, supported by partners like Webflow, Netlify, Wix, Sentry, and Stainless, will keep backing community contributions. Astro stays portable: it can run on any cloud or platform, and the team's commitment to developers everywhere is unchanged.

Cloudflare is also pointing to an imminent Astro 6 release. The first public beta is available now, with GA expected within weeks.

Why Astro gained traction

Astro's growth has been substantial. Rather than trying to serve both content sites and full web applications, the framework commits to five design principles:

  • Content-driven: Built to showcase content.
  • Server-first: HTML is rendered on the server for faster sites.
  • Fast by default: Slow sites should be hard to build.
  • Easy to use: No expert required to start.
  • Developer-focused: Resources and support for builders.

The Islands Architecture is central to this approach. Most of a page can be static, rendered HTML; interactive components can be added as client islands using any UI framework, or several at once on the same page.

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What this means for Astro development

Astro 6 introduces a redesigned development server built on the Vite Environments API. Local development runs on the same runtime as production, so code using Cloudflare features like Durable Objects, D1, KV, and Agents executes in workerd during local dev — and any JavaScript runtime with a compatible Vite Environments plugin can offer the same parity.

npm create astro@latest -- --ref next

For existing projects:

npx @astrojs/upgrade beta

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Astro 6 also brings Live Content Collections out of beta. Collections can now update in real time without a rebuild, useful for frequently changing data like store inventories while retaining Astro's validation and caching. Additional features include first-class Content Security Policy (CSP) support — Astro's most-upvoted feature request — simpler APIs, and an upgrade to Zod 4.

With Astro's focus on content and portability, the framework has increasingly become the foundation that platforms and their users build on, from Webflow and Wix to developer-docs generation via Stainless. The team sees the combination as a continued bet on making the web better and faster, with Astro serving as a simple, fast-by-default foundation for both human builders and AI agents.

Development is ongoing beyond Astro 6 — the roadmap is public, and the maintainers are active on the Astro blog and community Discord.