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Token & Tech articles on Web development: explainers, analysis and guides with verifiable sources and clearly separated facts and opinions.
Development & Building with AI · Explainer
When a site has thousands of content pages, every architectural decision is multiplied. Based on the official documentation and dated field data, see what Astro does well in this scenario and where its limits are.
Development & Building with AI · Analysis
Astro and Next.js both generate HTML on the server, but they start from different premises: one was born for content sites, the other for React applications. With official documentation and dated field data, see what that changes in practice.
Development & Building with AI · Tutorial
A technical audit done once a quarter is out of date the next day. See how to split the checks into layers that run on their own with every release and fail before the problem reaches the search engine.
Development & Building with AI · Tutorial
Eight languages are not eight copies of the blog. They are one original text, seven translations with their own status, and one simple rule: no language goes live before it is ready.
Development & Building with AI · Tutorial
A static site has no server to answer searches. Pagefind works around this by generating an index after the build, which the browser itself queries. Here is how to set up search in an Astro project.
Development & Building with AI · Tutorial
Automating deployment takes human error out of the process, but creates a new target: the pipeline has access to production. See how to build an automated deployment that only ships what passed the tests and keeps the keys safe.
Development & Building with AI · Tutorial
A web tool that calls a language model inherits all the risks of an ordinary application and adds others. See what to protect, step by step, before putting it online.
Development & Building with AI · Explainer
Hreflang tells Google that two pages are the same thing in different languages. There are only a few rules, but a single reciprocity error makes the search engine ignore all of them.
Development & Building with AI · Analysis
All three options solve the same problem, storing and editing a website's content, but they change who can write, where the text lives and what can go wrong. Here are the differences, based on the official documentation.
Development & Building with AI · Tutorial
With 5,000 pages, the structure has to be decided before the content. Here is a seven-step plan, based on Google and Astro documentation, to keep URLs, routes, sitemap and links under control.
Development & Building with AI · Tutorial
A multilingual website starts with URL decisions, not translation. See how Astro organizes languages, when to use its built-in routing and when to build your own.
Development & Building with AI · Explainer
With Supabase, the browser talks directly to the database. That is only safe if the access rules live in the database itself. See how the three pieces fit together.
