r/astrojs

Adding Sanity visual editing to my Astro site (Vercel). The official guide puts the whole site on output: "server", but then every visit hits the Sanity API, and on the free plan that's a hard limit. Also not thrilled about giving up static HTML from the CDN, since speed is the reason I picked Astro.

My current idea: keep production static like it is now (rebuild on publish) and run a second SSR deployment just for the Presentation tool.

Is that what people do? Curious what you're running in prod.

hey, quick question for people doing client work on Vercel

stack: Astro + Sanity, simple static sites. I want the client to own the Vercel account and pay for it ($20 Pro), but the repo stays private on my GitHub. problem is Vercel blocks deploys from my commits unless I get a paid seat in their team, so it's $40/mo. Sanity deploy hooks also get blocked if the last commit is mine. clients aren't technical so making them set up GitHub is not great

on Netlify I used to just connect my repo to the client's account and it worked

how do you handle this?

I’ve been building a small hosting/deployment tool for Astro projects, and it’s finally at the point where I’d like to put it in front of a few people who aren’t me!

The idea is pretty simple: take an existing Astro project and deploy it from the command line with as little setup as possible.

Ultimately, I’d like to get to a point where publishing a website becomes a seamless experience that doesn’t require much technical knowledge.

Right now, the flow is basically:

your Astro project → one CLI command → build logs → a live URL

There’s no GitHub setup required, no repo connection, and no cloud account or infrastructure configuration. There’s also an MCP interface, so a coding agent can deploy the project directly.

This is still a very early private test, not a public launch. I’m deliberately keeping the scope small for now: Just static Astro sites, a minimal deployment flow, and figuring out where the rough edges are before adding more.

I’m looking for a handful of Astro users who’d be willing to try deploying one or two real projects (or starters/templates) and tell me where it breaks, feels confusing, or takes longer than expected.

I’m especially interested in things I won’t discover by testing my own projects over and over again.

The test sites will be temporary and will expire after a few days. I’m not looking for polished bug reports. Even “I expected X here, but Y happened” would be extremely useful.

If you’d like to try it, leave a comment or DM me and I’ll send you the private tester instructions. I'll get back to you via DMs in 48hrs max.

Thanks!