Astro Crash Course #1 - Why Astro? (& Setup)

An introductory crash course on Astro, a content-driven web framework that ships zero JavaScript by default. Covers what Astro is, how it differs from Next.js, key features like client islands, content collections with Zod schema validation, and server-side rendering. Walks through project setup using npm create astro, explains the generated project structure, and previews the dev server. The course project is a book review site using markdown-based content collections, to be deployed to Netlify.