Rebuilt this site with Astro

This site used to be a pile of hand-written HTML files, one per page, each with its own copy of the same navbar. Changing a menu item meant editing six files.

It’s now an Astro project. The navbar lives in one component, the projects, tools and links are plain data files, and the pages are generated from those.

How it ships

GitHub Pages can only serve the repo root or a /docs folder, so Astro is configured to build straight into docs/:

// astro.config.mjs
export default defineConfig({
  site: 'https://cybars69.github.io',
  outDir: './docs',
});

The routine is npm run build, commit docs/, push. Pages serves whatever is in there.

What didn’t change

The look. Same fonts, same frosted cards, same Bootstrap 4 underneath. The point was to make the site easier to keep adding to, not to redesign it.