Looking for more on Astro? This collection on the Emdash Kits blog brings together related articles, guides, and insights. Browse all 11 posts below.
Visiting a bare English-style URL for a post that only existed in Indonesian didn't 404 cleanly — it crashed the server mid-response with a ResponseSentError.
Opening the sitemap directly in a browser rendered a wall of broken-looking markup — but the file itself was perfectly valid XML the whole time.
A batch of posts inserted straight into the database showed up correctly in every query, but the live homepage feed, category listing, and sidebar kept serving the version from before the insert.
A public page under a lightweight custom layout had its spacing quietly collapse — no errors, just gaps disappearing — because the CSS custom properties it depended on were never defined there.
Three different features on the same site broke the same way — content injected via innerHTML rendered fine structurally but came out completely unstyled — because of one Astro compile-time detail.
The language switcher silently disappeared on a post that had a real, published Indonesian translation — the bug was passing the wrong id into the translation lookup.
A route rebuilt at the same dynamic path can render correctly in production but come back completely unstyled in astro dev — here's why, and the one command that fixes it.
After enabling a second locale on an EmDash + Astro site, every translated post link on the homepage, related articles, and sidebar pointed to /id/id/{slug} — a guaranteed 404 — while the slugs in the database were perfectly clean. Here's the root cause (locale-prefixed entry IDs meeting hand-rolled base paths) and the one-helper fix.
An API-first CMS treats the API as the foundation of the entire system, not an afterthought. This guide explains what that means, the benefits it offers, and the most common use cases, from multi-platform businesses to AI-driven workflows.
A hybrid CMS gives you a built-in front end and API access in one platform, blending the simplicity of traditional systems with the flexibility of headless architecture. This guide explains how it works, with real-world examples to make it concrete.
Cloudflare just launched EmDash, an open-source CMS built on Astro and positioned as the 'spiritual successor to WordPress.' This guide covers what EmDash is, how its sandboxed plugin security and AI-native design work, and whether it's ready to replace WordPress.