Introduction
What astro-ignite is, why it exists, and what it gives you out of the box.
astro-ignite is a shadcn-style CLI for bootstrapping production-grade Astro sites built for AI agents. You get a finished site with SEO, i18n, performance, legal, and email pre-wired.
Why bother
Most Astro starters land at one of two extremes: a minimal hello world you assemble yourself, or an opinionated framework that hides decisions behind abstractions. astro-ignite picks a different point — opinionated defaults you fully own.
You get:
- Lighthouse 100s on mobile out of the box, CI-enforced
- Native i18n with one code path for monolingual and multilingual sites
- Typed Schema.org JSON-LD built from
schema-dts - A working contact form with Astro Actions, Zod, and your choice of Resend or SMTP
- Cookie banner + legal templates that don’t pretend to be legal advice
- Self-hosted Geist Sans + Mono with zero CLS on swap
- Pure-Astro components — no React/Vue/Svelte runtime weighing down the page
What it isn’t
astro-ignite is not a framework. There is no runtime npm package called astro-ignite. After scaffolding, you own the code and can edit anything. Eject is free because there’s nothing to eject.
It’s also not a CMS, an auth system, or an e-commerce starter. It’s a site bootstrap.