🆚 Astro vs. mdBook

Astro is a web build tool optimized for creating fast, content-driven websites using server-rendered HTML and an Islands architecture for partial hydration.

It supports UI components from React, Vue, Svelte, and other frameworks, includes built-in content collections with type safety, ships zero JavaScript by default, and provides incremental content caching with flexible deployment modes, including hybrid static and SSR output.

mdBook is a Rust-based command-line tool that compiles Markdown files into navigable and searchable online books for documentation, tutorials, and technical guides.

It provides built-in search, color syntax highlighting via Highlight.js, multilingual books, theme customization, preprocessors and renderer plugins, automatic table of contents generation, and automated testing of Rust code samples.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in India in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Static Site Generators category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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