Highlight how the Astro community embraced View Transitions when Chrome was shaping up the API and the journey towards landing first-class support for it in Astro + persistent islands.

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Chrome Developers

Astro View Transitions is a JavaScript web framework that server-renders your UI components to lightweight HTML for faster page load performance. Astro could provide the same routing features that JavaScript-heavy SPA web frameworks offered, but without the performance and complexity overhead of client-side routing. Astro intentionally moves as much work off the client.

Astro View Transitions

# Early explorations with view transitions