Cloudflare acquires the team behind Astro, committing to open source and faster, high-performance content-driven websites.
Cloudflare has acquired the team behind Astro, a widely used open-source JavaScript framework known for powering fast, content-driven websites. The company said Astro will remain open source under Cloudflare’s stewardship, signaling a long-term commitment to performance-focused web development.
Astro is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and by major organizations including Unilever, Visa, and NBC News. The framework has gained traction by addressing a growing performance challenge on the modern web: JavaScript-heavy pages that slow load times, weaken search rankings, and erode user experience.
Speed as a Strategic Priority
Unlike traditional frameworks that rely heavily on client-side JavaScript, Astro renders pages by loading only the code required to display content. This approach prioritizes speed and reliability—attributes increasingly favored by search engines and expected by users.
“Protecting and investing in open source tools is critical to the health of a free and open Internet,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and chief executive of Cloudflare. “By committing to one of the most impactful frameworks for speed and performance, we’re ensuring Astro remains the best framework for content-driven websites—not just today, but for years to come.”
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Scaling Astro Without Closing It Off
The acquisition brings the Astro Technology Company team into Cloudflare, but does not tie the framework to Cloudflare’s infrastructure. Astro will continue to support deployments across hosting providers.
“Joining Cloudflare allows us to accelerate Astro’s development at a much larger scale,” said Fred Schott, chief executive of the Astro Technology Company. “Astro will remain the best way to build content-driven websites—whether developers host on Cloudflare or elsewhere.”
Astro already underpins platforms such as Webflow and Wix, both of which run on Cloudflare’s network. Earlier this week, the framework introduced the beta release of Astro 6, adding support for additional JavaScript runtimes, improving performance, and reducing build times.
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An Open-Source Bet on the Web’s Future
Cloudflare said it will continue to support the broader Astro ecosystem through the Astro Ecosystem Fund, alongside partners including Webflow, Netlify, Wix, and Sentry. The move reinforces Cloudflare’s broader strategy of investing in developer infrastructure while positioning performance as a competitive advantage for the open web.
At a time when speed, reliability, and discoverability increasingly determine which sites succeed, Cloudflare’s acquisition of Astro reflects a clear bet: that the future of web development belongs to frameworks that deliver content first—and code only when necessary.
