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Updated May 6, 2026

Published May 6, 2026

System, Light, Dark: How Colour Mode Works

A 3-state colour mode with no flash, live OS-preference tracking, and a pill dropdown that respects what the user picked. Here is how it is built.

Published May 4, 2026

Add a LetterGlitch Effect to Astro 7

How to drop a brand-tinted LetterGlitch canvas effect into an Astro 7 project: the full component, an Astro wrapper, and the production-ready details.

Published April 19, 2026

Getting Started: From Install to Live

How to install, configure, and deploy Astro Rocket — covering site.config.ts, brand colours, navigation, writing posts, and deploying to Vercel.

Published April 18, 2026

Every Configuration Toggle, Theme and Layout

A walkthrough of every configuration option: 12 colour themes, OKLCH colours, typography, radius and shadow tokens, header styles, and dark mode.

Published April 17, 2026

Animations: How the Motion Design Works

Every animation layer in Astro Rocket: the ease-out hero entrance, the staggered scroll-reveal cascade, and how it stays smooth with no JS animation library.

Published April 17, 2026

44 Components Ready to Use

A 44-component UI library: buttons, cards, dialogs, forms, data display, and full page-structure components. All accessible, all themed.

Published April 17, 2026

SEO: What's Built In and How to Configure It

Astro Rocket handles structured data, Open Graph, canonical URLs, sitemaps, and more out of the box. Here's exactly what ships and where to configure it.

Published April 16, 2026

Hero Scroll Indicator: Hides on Scroll

Two bouncing chevrons that fade in after the hero animation and disappear the moment you start scrolling. How every part of the indicator works.

Published April 15, 2026

A Progress Ring on the Back-to-Top Button

The back-to-top button has a circular SVG ring that fills as you scroll: brand-coloured, theme-aware, and built from CSS and a small inline script.

Published March 31, 2026

Contact Form Setup: Resend, Vercel, GoDaddy

The contact form is wired up but needs three things to deliver email: a Resend account, a verified domain, and one environment variable on Vercel.

Published March 25, 2026

The Scroll Progress Bar

A thin brand-coloured line that fills as you scroll. How the progress bar works, where it lives, and how to enable it on any page.

Published March 16, 2026

The Design System: Tokens, Colours, Dark Mode

Astro Rocket uses a three-tier token architecture with OKLCH colors. Change one value and the entire site updates. Here's how it works and how to make it yours.

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