Astro: Building Fast, Clinical-Grade Websites Without the Bloat
Physician-developer projects are usually content-first. Astro fits that shape by shipping less JavaScript, faster pages, and cleaner performance by default.
Physician-developer projects are usually content-first. Astro fits that shape by shipping less JavaScript, faster pages, and cleaner performance by default.
Every patient portal, tablet consent form, and browser-based clinical tool already runs JavaScript. This is where physician-developers start changing what medicine feels like on a screen.
A practical 10-part Doctors Who Code series for physicians who want to build and ship clinical tools with the modern web stack, from JavaScript to deployment.
After spending a day fighting a WordPress plugin that wouldn't respect a domain change, I rebuilt DoctorsWhoCode.blog from scratch with Astro and MDX. The migration took one afternoon. The clarity was immediate.
By Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG | Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist & Medical Director, Atlanta Perinatal Associates