Cloudflare, Inc. has announced the acquisition of The Astro Technology Company, the team behind the popular open-source Astro web framework, marking a strategic move to strengthen its developer tooling and commitment to high-performance, content-driven web experiences; Astro will remain open source to ensure long-term growth and ecosystem support, and the entire Astro team will join Cloudflare to scale development and innovation across platforms while continuing to support deployments beyond just Cloudflare’s own infrastructure, doubling down on making Astro the definitive choice for building fast, content-centric websites used by major brands like Unilever, Visa, and NBC News and backed by contributions from partners including Webflow, Netlify, Wix, and Sentry. “Protecting and investing in open source tools is critical to the health of a functioning, free, and open Internet,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, emphasizing the importance of speed and performance in search ranking and user experience, while Fred Schott, CEO of The Astro Technology Company, added that “Joining Cloudflare allows us to accelerate Astro’s development faster and on a much larger scale,” underscoring the expanded resources and support that will help deliver improvements such as the newly introduced Astro 6 beta, which enhances performance and expands support for JavaScript runtimes, ultimately enabling developers to build and deliver faster, leaner web pages optimized for instant load times and broader adoption across the web.
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The acquisition reflects Cloudflare’s broader strategy to foster open-source innovation and embed itself deeper into the modern web development ecosystem by combining its global edge network, developer platform, and extensive tooling with one of the fastest-growing frameworks focused on reducing unnecessary JavaScript and prioritizing content delivery efficiency, a move seen as a competitive step in the platform landscape that challenges other web framework and hosting providers and signals Cloudflare’s intent to be a foundational infrastructure partner for developers worldwide.