You can write content directly in Astro components by writing HTML, but Astro comes with a very powerful Markdown and MDX engine.
MDX is basically Markdown with superpowers. It allows you to import components and show them in the page.
You might not need it most of the time (I don’t), but it’s supported.
To create a markdown page, you can add it directly into src/pages:
Astro will render this:
Of course you want to use a layout, and you can set it in the frontmatter of the markdown page:
---
layout: ../layouts/Layout.astro
---
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You can contact us at...
From within the layout you can access any frontmatter variable by importing the frontmatter from Astro.props:
---
const { frontmatter} = Astro.props
---
You usually have the title, the description, maybe a date.
Collections are a handy way to work with lots of markdown files. We’ll see them later.
Lessons this unit:
| 0: | Introduction |
| 1: | Your first Astro site |
| 2: | The structure of an Astro site |
| 3: | Astro components |
| 4: | Adding more pages |
| 5: | Dynamic routing |
| 6: | ▶︎ Markdown in Astro |
| 7: | Images |
| 8: | Content collections |
| 9: | CSS in Astro |
| 10: | JavaScript in Astro |
| 11: | Client-side routing and view transitions |
| 12: | SSR in Astro |
| 13: | API endpoints in Astro |
| 14: | Managing forms in Astro COMING SOON |