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Islands Architecture Complete Guide

Master Islands Architecture with Astro and Fresh for optimal performance

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Ümit Uz
Mobile & Full Stack Developer

Islands Architecture hydrates only the interactive parts of your page.

What is Islands Architecture?

Islands Architecture allows you to build static pages with interactive components (islands) that hydrate independently.

Benefits

  • Faster initial page load
  • Independent component hydration
  • Better performance out of the box
  • Progressive enhancement

Frameworks

Astro

Astro is the pioneer of Islands Architecture.

astro
---
import InteractiveComponent from '../components/InteractiveComponent.astro';
---

<h1>Static Content</h1>
<InteractiveComponent client:load />
---

Fresh

Fresh (Deno) also implements islands architecture for optimal performance.

Islands Architecture represents the future of web development.

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