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From Strategy to Code

Services/Delivery & Engineering/Web Engineering

Astro Development Agency · Islands Architecture, Content Sites at Speed

Astro for content-heavy sites where JavaScript is a tax, not a feature. Marketing sites, documentation, knowledge bases, and content-led commerce — built with islands architecture and the option to drop in React, Vue, or Svelte where interactivity is genuinely needed.

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Why HXRL

Our point of view

Most marketing sites built in Next.js or Nuxt are paying for SSR they don't need. Astro's static-first model with optional islands is the right shape for 80% of brand and content work — and we ship it when it fits, instead of defaulting to a heavier framework.

Outcome

A platform engineering keeps shipping into without rewrites — and that audit, security, and finance can each defend.

What we ship

Astro Development

Concrete deliverables — not adjectives. Each engagement scopes which of these are in play and what success looks like for them.

01Astro content sites with MDX or headless CMS
02Islands architecture (React/Vue/Svelte components on demand)
03Headless WordPress, Sanity, or Contentful integration
04Core Web Vitals 100/100 builds
05Static deploys on Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, or Netlify
FAQ

Questions clients actually ask

Drawn from sales calls, not SEO filler. Want a question added? Drop it in the form on this page — we update from real enquiries.

When is Astro better than Next.js?+

Content-led sites with limited interactivity — marketing, docs, blogs, knowledge bases. Astro ships less JS by default, scores 100 on Core Web Vitals more easily, and is faster to onboard.

Can Astro handle e-commerce?+

For storefront frontends with Snipcart, Shopify Hydrogen islands, or headless commerce backends — yes. For full-app commerce with complex state, we'd use Next.js or Nuxt.

Do you support Astro DB and Astro Studio?+

We use them for content-adjacent data (newsletter, comments). Production user data still goes to Postgres with a real backend — we don't conflate Astro DB with production OLTP.

Migrate from Gatsby or Hugo to Astro?+

Yes — both common migrations. We script the content migration and rebuild the design system once.

Get in touch

Talk to a senior engineer about Astro Development.

No SDR funnel — your message goes to a director who can tell you, on the first call, whether we're the right partner.

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Next.js Development

We build production Next.

Nuxt.js Development

Nuxt 3 done right — Vue 3 Composition API, Nitro on the server, and the rendering model chosen per route rather than as a global setting.

React Development

React for product teams that need engineering discipline as much as developer experience.

Vue.js Development

Vue 3 with the Composition API for teams that want React's flexibility and Vue's ergonomics.

Angular Development

Angular for enterprise teams that need batteries-included structure — TypeScript, RxJS, dependency injection, and the modern Signals primitive.

SvelteKit Development

SvelteKit for teams who care about bundle size and ergonomics in equal measure.