Our story
One template, since 2022
Started before Astro 1.0 shipped, shaped by every Astro release since, and by the people who kept sending pull requests.
A template for a framework still in beta
AstroWind starts on Astro 1.0 beta with a handful of pages, a few widgets and one idea: a website can be fast, simple and good-looking at the same time.
The most starred Astro theme, in its first year
By December it is the most starred theme in the Astro ecosystem, a place it would hold year after year. The first pull requests from strangers arrive, and they keep coming.
The busiest stretch
Astro grows fast and the template grows with it: collections for content, better images, page transitions. The blog matures, the widgets double, the road to 1.0 begins, and more people than ever send pull requests.
Polish
Astro 4, and a year of small, careful improvements, most of them sent in by contributors: accessibility, tooling, ways to edit and ways to deploy. Three thousand stars by September.
Steady, and quieter
Astro 5 and regular updates. Fewer commits, nothing broken, and the stars kept coming: five thousand by October.
Astro 7 and Tailwind CSS 4
Two framework majors in one year. The template gets a new generation of widgets, complete landing pages, a blog that finally reads like documentation, and a guide so coding assistants know their way around.
Release v1
Four years after the first commit, the demo has no placeholders left: every page, every landing page and every post is real, and the template is ready for whatever comes next.
