About Starlight
Starlight is a documentation theme and framework built on Astro. It gives you a complete docs site with navigation, search and translations from the start.
What it does
You add Markdown, MDX or Markdoc files to a project, and Starlight generates the site structure, navigation and search. Frontmatter is validated with TypeScript types, which catches content mistakes early. Because it sits on Astro, you can extend the site with Astro integrations and add UI components from other frameworks.
Key features
- Site navigation and search included
- Support for many languages
- Markdown, Markdoc and MDX content
- Frontmatter checked with TypeScript types
- Use React, Vue, Svelte or Solid components
Who it's for
Starlight fits open source projects, product teams and developer tools that want a polished docs site quickly. It works well for teams that care about performance and accessibility and do not want to build a docs theme from scratch.
Pricing and good to know
Starlight is open source under the MIT license and free to use. It is built on Astro, so you host the generated output on any static hosting service. A basic understanding of Astro project structure helps when you customize beyond the defaults.
Highlights
- Generate navigation and search automatically
- Write content in Markdown, Markdoc or MDX
- Translate the site into several languages
- Catch frontmatter errors with TypeScript types
- Add components from React, Vue, Svelte or Solid
