What's happening
Cloudflare is bringing in the team behind Astro, a framework that's been doubling its user base year-over-year. They're not buying a competitor or absorbing market share. They're investing in people who understand how to build fast, content-focused websites that work well at the edge.
The Astro team has stayed focused on one thing: making the best framework for content-rich sites. No distractions, no competing products, just clear vision. Cloudflare clearly sees the value.
What this means for Cloudflare's developer platform
This acquisition signals where Cloudflare is heading with their developer platform. They've been building infrastructure for years: Workers, Pages, KV storage, D1 databases. The pieces are there. What they needed was a team that deeply understands how developers actually want to build websites.
Bringing Astro's team into their R&D changes things. These aren't just framework maintainers. They're people who've thought hard about developer experience, build performance, and what makes content sites actually work well. That knowledge now feeds directly into Cloudflare's platform development.
Why the timing makes sense
Astro's growth isn't slowing. The framework solves real problems: slow builds, heavy JavaScript, complex workflows. Cloudflare's platform is built for edge delivery. Astro's architecture is built for minimal JavaScript and maximum performance. The fit is natural.
We've been using this combination for over a year. First on our own site, then on client projects like Beamery. The results consistently beat what we could achieve with other stacks.
Our own experience: rebuilding two-point-o.com
When we rebuilt our site on Astro and Cloudflare in early 2024, the improvements were immediate.
Faster than before. With Astro, most pages ship as pure HTML with minimal JavaScript. Cloudflare's edge network serves that HTML from locations close to users. Time to first byte went from acceptable to excellent. Core Web Vitals improved across the board.
More secure than before. Edge deployment means no origin servers to attack. Cloudflare handles DDoS protection, SSL management, and security headers automatically. The attack surface shrunk dramatically.
Easier to develop. Astro's developer experience is clean. Hot module replacement is instant. The islands architecture means we can use React components where we need them without forcing our entire site into a React app. Local development mirrors production closely.
Easier to ship. Changes go live in seconds. Cloudflare's global deployment is instant once builds complete. No cache invalidation headaches. Push to main, and it's live globally.
What we saw with Beamery
We've partnered with Beamery (read our case) since 2021. By 2025, they were entering a new chapter with a major product launch and brand repositioning. Their Gatsby website had become a bottleneck. Build times were slow. SEO performance lagged. With Gatsby's de-investment following its acquisition, concerns about future maintainability grew.
We migrated them to Astro, keeping Contentful as their CMS but rebuilding the frontend. The migration wasn't simple. Years of complexity, multiple layers, intricate dependencies. We worked in phases without disrupting the live site.
The results came fast:
- 1
Bounce rate dropped 20% (56% to 45%). Users stayed instead of leaving.
- 2
Session duration increased 40% (2m25s to 3m27s). People spent more time with content.
- 3
Pages per session grew 40% (0.95 to 1.34). Visitors explored more.
- 4
Build times cut by over 50%. Content teams publish changes faster.
- 5
Demo requests surged 64% (191 to 313). The business metric that matters most improved dramatically.
Beamery serves global enterprises with sophisticated content needs. If Astro works for them, it works for most content-driven businesses.
What comes next
For companies running content-heavy websites, this means the stack gets better, more stable, and more widely supported.
If you've been considering a replatform or wondering whether your current setup is holding you back, this changes the calculation. The risk of betting on Astro just went down. The potential upside went up.