Stay where you are, or move to code you own

Webflow vs Astro

Plenty of marketing sites should stay on Webflow. Some of them eventually become software projects. This page is about knowing when you have crossed that line.

WordPress vs Astro

The decision depends on what the team needs to publish and maintain. Keep the editorial workflow and plugins that are doing useful work; consider a different front end when maintenance and custom development are getting in the way.

Framer vs Astro

Framer is the best design tool on this list and the hardest to get anything out of. Both of those are true at once, and which one matters depends on who needs to change the site next.

Squarespace vs Astro

Squarespace is a good answer for a site built once and edited occasionally. The question is whether the template is still helping you or has become the reason three things on your list cannot be done.

Shopify vs Astro

This is not a choice between two platforms. It is a decision about where the line goes between the site that explains the product and the store that sells it, and the answer for a working store is almost never to move the store.

Lovable vs Astro

The code is already yours and already in a repository, so nothing here is about getting out. It is about whether a generated single-page application is the right shape for a site whose job is to be found and read.

Base44 vs Astro

Base44 generates the application, the database, the authentication and the hosting together, which is a powerful default while you are building a product. A separate site codebase (Next.js or Astro) starts making sense when part of what you built has become something simpler: a public website whose job is to be read, published and maintained.

Bolt vs Astro

Bolt is built to generate and iterate on applications. A dedicated site codebase (Next.js or Astro) is built around pages marketing can edit and search can read. The question is which parts of the project still need application architecture.

v0 vs Astro

v0 writes good React, and all of it is React. That is the right default for an application and an expensive one for a page that is mostly words, which is the only real question on this page.