Astro + Starlight

Starlight is a full-featured documentation theme built on top of the Astro framework. Astro is a JavaScript web framework optimized for building fast, content-driven websites.

Resources

• Getting Started
• Customizing Starlight
• Project Structure
• Plugins & Themes

Features

• Supports Markdown, Markdoc (Markdown with Astro components) and Markdown MDX
• Supports Tailwind CSS
• Supports multiple languages (i18n)
• The default appearance can be customized with CSS and configuration options
• Build-in Pagefind search functionality with options to exclude content from the search (also supports Algolia DocSearch)
• Uses plugins to customize Starlight configuration, UI, and behavior

Info

• Run local preview: npm run dev
• Configuration file is tsconfig.json
• Landing page is index.mdx
• Document pages are title.md

My Thoughts

• Easy setup that leads you through all necessary steps (and lets you start right away with an empty template)
• I really like some of the default designs in Starlight, especially the cards and the stylized list items

Since I haven’t spend a lot of time playing around with this, here some feedback from another user:

• Building a documentation site using Astro Starlight
• Astro for Documentation Sites: Insights After 6 Months

Example Sites

• Astro Documentation
• Patchstack Documentation