Production-ready Astro starter

Astro, Tailwind, and DaisyUI with strong defaults and clear control.

This starter is designed to help developers move quickly without inheriting a theme, a setup wizard, or a pile of abstractions that are hard to remove later.

It is opinionated enough to be useful, small enough to understand quickly, and structured to stay friendly to both experienced Astro users and newcomers.

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Opinionated enough to be useful
Small enough to understand quickly
Ready for production work with low setup friction
Easy to customize without losing control

Quick start

Command

pnpm create astro@latest --template aholbreich/astro-tailwind-daisyui-starter

Update `src/site-config.ts`, replace the sample content, and delete anything you do not need.

The starter builds as a plain static Astro site by default, and you can add an adapter later if your deployment target needs one.

Included by default

Astro 6 with Tailwind CSS 4 and DaisyUI 5
Typed blog content collection with Markdown and MDX support
SEO metadata, sitemap, robots.txt, and local SVG icons
Dark mode toggle, skip link, and reduced-motion support

Starter principles

DaisyUI is included on purpose as the default UI layer.
Alpine is only used for tiny progressive enhancement needs.
Examples are meant to be easy to delete, not hard to work around.
Any escape hatches stay secondary to the default starter story.