Astro is awesome. It’s easy enough to get started with a template for a static site and flexible enough to build dynamic web apps.

My static personal site is Astro hosted on cloudflare pages https://github.com/ShaunLawrie/shaunlawrie.com

And I used their documentation template https://starlight.astro.build/ for my autogenerated docs on https://pwshspectreconsole.com/

I love having the ability to focus on the content and never having any blockers if I want to do something weird like embed a prebuilt react component for some edge cases.

1+ Astro.

I actually built a low-code blog template using Astro for my partner and friends [1].

I set it up so you can publish a github pages site from your browser (using a dev container), or you can just drop in markdown files into vscode. It's not quite no-code, but I think if I could add a simple UI it in theory could be.

[1] https://github.com/easy-astro-blog-creator/easy-astro-blog-c...

Haven’t tried Astro myself, but AFAICT it’s compatible with AWS Amplify – which in my book is a huge plus.

The Amplify hosting platform is very easy to get started with. I use it with Hugo, it’s super-convenient, IMO.

https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/deploy/aws/

How much are you getting charged each month for Amplify?

My traffic is minuscule, so for two Hugo blogs it’s something like $1/month.

Astro is really good for this use case. Also easy to host on platforms like Netlify.