EmDash is an open-source CMS from Cloudflare built on Astro and designed for both humans and agents. This tutorial shows how to install it outside Cloudflare, on a Hetzner VPS with Node.js, SQLite, Caddy and PM2, making it an option worth weighing against WordPress for Astro projects.
The author of a directory of AI tools for developers explains how rankings are modeled as Zod-validated data in Astro content collections. The post also covers making the site readable by chatbots and letting an AI agent ship changes without bypassing the rules.
The new release adds a --timings flag to see where build time goes, separates build and runtime image services and adds a notFound() handler for custom entrypoints. Parallel prerendering and custom redirect pages arrive as experimental features, useful for large static sites.
