🆚 Astro vs. Quarto

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.

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system based on Markdown that allows users to write in plain-text Markdown or work with Jupyter notebooks and embed executable code in Python, R, Julia, or Observable JS.

It supports 📖 Pandoc-style Markdown with equations, citations, cross-references, figure panels, and advanced layout, and renders a single source into formats such as HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, presentations, websites, blogs, or books.

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.

• 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Data Science category.
• 🔥 14th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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