Aster website

Public-facing Astro website for Aster.

Purpose

This repository contains the narrative/product site for Aster, not the documentation site.

• Website: brand, worldview, architecture framing, trust model, examples, status
• Docs: quickstart, guides, concepts, reference, bindings

The site should explain Aster as an identity-first distributed systems substrate with:

• identity-first connectivity
• content-addressed contracts
• high-performance cross-language serialization
• explicit trust and capability structure

Routes

• /
• /why
• /architecture
• /trust
• /examples
• /about

Stack

• Astro 6
• TypeScript
• Bun for package management / scripts
• Local Geist and IBM Plex Mono font assets

Development

Install dependencies:

bun install

Start the dev server:

bun dev

Build the site:

bun build

Preview the production build:

bun preview

Project structure

src/
  components/   Shared UI pieces
  layouts/      Shared Astro layouts
  pages/        Route-level authored pages
  styles/       Global tokens and base styling
public/
  fonts/        Local font assets
_private/       Source IA / spec / brand inputs

Content guidance

• Keep the website distinct from docs/reference
• Stay calm, precise, and infrastructural in tone
• Avoid hype, blockchain cues, and generic SaaS styling
• Prefer authored pages over premature abstraction

Source of truth

Primary project context lives in:

• _private/WEBSITE-IA.md
• _private/Aster-SPEC.md
• _private/brand/aster-brand-pack.md
• .clinerules/memory_bank/