The Astro Markdown with plugins template showcases Astro's built-in Markdown support with additional, user-provided plugins. This template demonstrates how to extend Astro's powerful Markdown capabilities with custom plugins, enabling enhanced content authoring, syntax highlighting, and advanced formatting options.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Repository | Azion Samples |
| Framework | Astro |
| Use Case | General |

About this template
This template showcases Astro’s built-in Markdown support extended with user-provided remark and rehype plugins. It demonstrates how to enrich plain Markdown with extra formatting, transformations, and metadata without leaving the standard authoring flow. Deployed on Azion, the generated pages are served via a distributed architecture for fast, globally distributed delivery.
Key features
- Astro Markdown pipeline extended with custom remark and rehype plugins.
- Examples of enhanced formatting and content transformations at build time.
- Static Site Generation (SSG) for lightweight, cacheable pages.
- One-click deployment to Azion’s globally distributed global network.