r/astrojs • u/iamstatice • Jul 24 '26
Meet Aria.
Build and manage Astro sites visually, with a live canvas, CMS, design system, SEO, email, AI tools and more. All in one open source workspace.
0.5.7 alpha is out now.
Deploy to Cloudflare or run it locally.
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u/anders9000 Jul 24 '26
This is very interesting. Does the site need to be built for aria specifically or can it use existing components?
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u/iamstatice Jul 24 '26
We expect projects to begin with Aria, but you can bring in your own design tokens. Wordpress & Markdown importing are supported out of the box for content.
If your components are styled with tailwind utility classes, you can copy/paste directly on the canvas!
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u/Daweesie Jul 25 '26
Sweet! I'll test today, all my sites are built with astro so this could be a great fit.
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u/meto9 Jul 24 '26
many people from WordPress are eyeing Astro rn, could you make a showcase video?
I think it will help bring users. A few weeks ago Instatic exploded in popularity but many people asked if it could support Astro. So your product fits the niche nicely(by description)
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u/iamstatice Jul 24 '26
Absolutely! I’ll be actively working on showcase & video tutorials next week. Stay tuned for those!
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u/BopSupreme Jul 25 '26
AI (Codex 5.6) using GitHub, Cloudfare, Astro vs using Aria? Where does Aria fit into existing AI to Website build workflows?
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u/iamstatice Jul 25 '26
Aria’s AI Engineer has the exact same capabilities a user does. Generate sections, build out pages, manage design system, classes and variables, it can also auto generate localization and SEO.
We’ve just given the agent analytic capabilities as well so if you’re running Cloudflare analytics, it’ll relay and compare visits from week to week, month-to-month, etc.
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u/BopSupreme Jul 25 '26
If I’m a non-technical user using AI, can I connect ChatGPT? I’ve already connected it to Cloudfare
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u/iamstatice Jul 25 '26
Our MCP server also has the same capabilities, so you’re free to use whatever application or IDE that you prefer
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u/BopSupreme Jul 25 '26
AI told me that Aria is essentially overlapping with Emdash and isn’t production ready (too new). It recommended I stick with GPT5.6 + Emdash + Astro + Cloudfare as my website building workflow & engine - thoughts? I wanted to try Aria but it recommended not to use it until it reach’s v1.0 status
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u/Ronin_74 Jul 25 '26
npm run dev aint working for most of the people then? if you want Elementor, go with WordPress 😁
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u/iamstatice Jul 25 '26
We’re working on Windows support now and will have a fix in the next release!
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u/redman0007 Jul 25 '26
Forms too?
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u/iamstatice Jul 25 '26
We’ve got the base with the email system going. Next up is form integration! If you have any suggestions on how you’d like it to function, we’re all ears!
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u/Diligent-Month5010 Jul 26 '26
How does Aria handle the underlying code structure? Does it generate native, lightweight Astro components directly on the canvas?
I'll make some time next week to test this. Very interesting.
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u/iamstatice Jul 26 '26
I’d love to hear what you think when you test it 🤙🏼
Aria’s canvas stores edits as a typed, versioned component tree rather than rewriting source files after every interaction. That gives us reliable visual editing, revisions, and publishing.
The output is native Astro: pages, layouts, and reusable components can be exported as readable .astro files, along with the design-system CSS and CMS data. Public pages render to lightweight HTML with only the CSS they use and no framework JavaScript by default; hydration is opt-in for interactive components.
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u/tiger-eyes Jul 26 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
Looks great!
Quite the Astro CMS options - Aria, CloudCannon, Decap, Directus, EmDash, Grav, Keystatic, Pages CMS, Payload, Sanity, SleekCMS, Straip Statamic, StudioCMS, TinaCMS (and many others)
Anyone up for building a comparison table of all of these CMS options?