Production Ready Astro Patterns

Built for great developer experience — just plonk and use in real projects

Stop figuring out Astro on your own. I’ve chosen the best approach for each system so you can focus on building great websites.

Get Practical Astro — only $149

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What's inside

Eight categories of production-tested patterns. Each one solves specific problems I’ve hit across 10+ Astro sites.

Ready by: 30th April
Content Systems
$49

Handle content like a pro

  • Advanced Markdown for Astro
  • Partials for page organization
  • Numbered files for content ordering
  • Blog organization best practices
  • Helpers for metadata insertion, filtering and sorting
  • Generate tags with one line of code
  • Prev/Next navigation component
  • Numbered pagination
Coming soon
Ready by: 31st May
Image Systems
$49

Images become a cinch.

  • Images without the import hassle
  • Built-in Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) prevention
  • Sane optimization defaults
  • Automatic responsive srcset
  • Use better image formats easily
  • Art direction – optimized, with one config
  • Background Image component
  • Repeatable image patterns
  • SVG Background patterns
  • Using optimized images in components
  • Video component with CLS prevention
  • Videos for GIF replacements
  • Github Actions with cached images
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Ready by: 30th June
SEO & Discovery
$49

SEO made really really easy.

  • Automatic canonical urls
  • All meta tags to rank on Google
  • Using AI for descriptions
  • Advanced SEO with various JSON-LD patterns
  • Accurate Sitemaps and Robots.txt
  • RSS Feed (with md and mdx content)
  • Open Graph tags to share on social media
  • Generate OG images automatically
  • Redirect patterns for SEO preservation
Coming soon
Form Systems
$49

Handle Forms with ease

  • SSR Forms and API routes
  • Advanced form handling patterns
  • Cleaner pattern than try/catch
  • Spam prevention without CAPTCHA
  • Sanitize inputs automatically
  • See all form data easily
  • Accept array fields
  • Multiple forms on the same page
  • Output error messages
  • Redirect patterns after submission
Coming soon
Email Systems
$49

Create and send emails straight from your Astro site!

  • Supports multiple providers
  • Pure Astro email templating
  • Reusable email templates, layouts, and components
  • Dynamic content and personalization
  • Responsive email patterns
  • Preview emails locally
  • Inline CSS automatically
  • Plain text fallbacks
  • Image handling in emails
  • Send emails from anywhere in your code
Coming soon
Database Systems
$49

Use SQLite easily with Astro DB or Drizzle ORM.

  • Works with Astro DB and Drizzle ORM
  • Declarative CRUD helpers – easier than Drizzle for most queries
  • Easier than NoSQL
  • Query most things without eq
  • Query multiple columns without and, and where
  • Automatic ID generation
  • Clean up null and undefined values automatically before insert and update operations
  • Column helpers for simpler schema design
Coming soon
Auth Systems
$149

Authentication without the nightmare.

  • Local authentication – without 3rd-party software
  • Authenticate with email and password
  • Automatic password hashing
  • Authenticate with OAuth
  • Supports 50+ OAuth providers via Arctic
  • Refresh OAuth tokens automatically
  • One-line authentication logic
  • Additional verification before login
  • Store sessions in cookies or database
  • Sessions that automatically extend – so users don't need to login again
  • Both Frontend and Backend authentication systems
  • Complete authentication flow – with login, logout, and password reset
  • Integration with Astro DB and Drizzle ORM
  • Simple AuthManager for protected routes
  • Logout from any device
  • Logout of all devices at once
  • Built-in CSRF protection
Coming soon
Payment Systems
$99

Collect cash with Stripe in hours --- not days.

  • Handle one-time payments
  • Handle Subscriptions
  • Using Stripe Checkout
  • Checkout flows with Astro
  • Subscription flows with Astro
  • Upgrade and Downgrade flows
  • Cancellation and refund flows
  • Cart abandonment rescue
  • Simplified Webhooks practices
  • Handling Test and Live environments
  • Automatic Tax handling
  • Automatic EU VAT handling
  • User creation post checkout
  • Storing customer information in your Database
Coming soon

Save Yourself From Weeks of Frustration

Grab the systems, use them, and move on

Astro gives you a great start. But you still have to figure out many things on your own:

  • Wiring up content collections
  • Handling images without layout shifts
  • Wiring up SEO
  • Building forms
  • Connecting payments
  • Making authentication work

That takes weeks per system — and it usually takes a few rounds to get everything right. (I know because I’ve been through it).

Since then, I’ve built many Astro sites and upgraded my systems, so I can build any site — blogs, marketing sites, and webapps, you name it — with speed, quality, and ease.

Each of these systems took me weeks to get right, so we’re talking about months of effort saved if you picked this up.

You’ll stop doing these:

  • Reinventing content structure
  • Fighting image imports and layout shifts
  • Debugging invisible SEO problems
  • Wrestling with forms, sanitization, redirects
  • Figuring out email HTML and inline CSS
  • Building auth from scratch (again)
  • Fussing around with complex queries
  • Piecing Stripe together from overwhelming docs and Stack Overflow

And do this instead:

  • Open the system you need
  • Find the pattern that helps
  • Grab the code
  • Use it
  • Move on

No more unnecessary frustration.

Years of Revision, Seconds to Use

Refined until there's no more friction

Zell

Hi, I’m Zell. I went all-in on Astro — it’s the framework I use for everything I build. So I’ve put lots of energy into building systems that work with it.

Over the years, I kept hitting the same friction points on every project. The solutions I found online sometimes worked, but they felt clunky — often too verbose, too complex, or too many moving parts for what should be simple.

I wanted something simple and powerful. So I built my own systems, then revised them — over and over — until each one couldn’t get simpler. All while handling every edge case I’ve hit in production.

As I built these systems up, the friction I felt when building sites dropped dramatically. And building became fun again.

I’d like to share them with you, so you can skip the months of trial and error I went through (and avoid dying by a thousand paper cuts).

8 Systems, Yours Today

Practical Astro
  • 1. Content Systems $49
  • 2. Image Systems $49
  • 3. SEO & Discovery $49
  • 4. Form Systems $49
  • 5. Email Systems $49
  • 6. Database Systems $49
  • 7. Auth Systems $149
  • 8. Payment Systems $99
  • Total $541

Save 100+ of hours of your time and bring back the ease and joy of building.

Price goes up as modules ship. Preorder now for the lowest price.

$541
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Pay once. Lifetime updates. Price rises May 1st.

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Imagine what you'll build next

Your next Astro project doesn’t have to be a slog.

I’ve already solved the hard parts. What’s left is putting them into your hands — Image, Content, Auth, Payments, SEO, and more.

From now on, you get to work on the fun parts. Make something great. Build what you want — and hit a homerun.

Get Practical Astro — $149

Skip the trial and error. Keep the systems forever.