# Astro and Agility CMS

> Source: https://agilitycms.com/docs/astro/astro-and-agility-cms

With Astro and Agility CMS, you can build a beautiful and performant website for your users, and deliver an amazing experience for both your **Editors** and **Developers**.

Our Astro starter is built using server-side rendering, and will generate all your pages for you using the Layouts in the Sitemap. This allows developers to focus on building reusable UI Components and empowers editors to compose and manage all of the pages on their website.

## A Great Editor Experience

While using Agility CMS to power the content of your Astro site, editors can create and manage pages with ease. They'll have a toolbox of UI Components (i.e. **Component Models ** and **Layout Models**) to select from that developers have built for them, and they'll use these to compose their pages. Editors are able to preview content changes in real-time in a Preview Environment prior to publishing.

## A Great Developer Experience

Astro is a popular platform and framework for building content-driven websites. With a simple DX and fast development environment, the app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files. This will also load the latest (staging mode) content from Agility CMS. When you change the content in the CMS, simply reload your page to see those changes updated on the site. It's extremely easy for developers to create reusable interactive UI Components that Editors can use to compose their pages.

## Getting Started Quickly

The [Astro Starter](https://github.com/agility/agility-astro-starter) template is a simple template that connects to a sample Agility CMS instance. This instance comes pre-configured with sample pages and content for a blog-styled website.  You can use this as the starting point for fully featured site with YOUR content.

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