Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/meta/docusaurus/vs/withastro/astro
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/meta/docusaurus/vs/withastro/astro.md
Description: docusaurus and astro share 12 technologies: React, unified, unist-util-visit, remark, mdast-util-mdx, rehype-stringify, rehype-raw, remark-gfm, vfile, Cheerio, prismjs, and sharp. Both are written in TypeScript.

# docusaurus vs astro

docusaurus and astro share 12 technologies: React, unified, unist-util-visit, remark, mdast-util-mdx, rehype-stringify, rehype-raw, remark-gfm, vfile, Cheerio, prismjs, and sharp. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [meta/docusaurus](https://seerepo.com/r/meta/docusaurus): Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
- [withastro/astro](https://seerepo.com/r/withastro/astro): The web framework for content-driven websites.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: React, unified, unist-util-visit, remark, mdast-util-mdx, rehype-stringify, rehype-raw, remark-gfm, vfile, Cheerio, prismjs, sharp
- Only in docusaurus: react-router-dom, prompts, lightningcss, to-vfile, mdast-util-to-string, mdast-util-directive, remark-mdx, remark-rehype, escape-html, image-size, remark-directive, remark-frontmatter, eta, feed, js-yaml, PostCSS, workbox-window, rtlcss, prism-react-renderer, nprogress, @mdx-js/react, Mermaid, @docsearch/react, joi, react-helmet-async, serve-handler
- Only in astro: Vite, Hono, Express, Fastify, Preact, preact-render-to-string, Solid, Svelte, Vue, fast-xml-parser, xml2js, Zod, @clack/prompts, parse-srcset, shiki, linkedom, htmlparser2, satteri, @shikijs/rehype, rehype-mathjax, rehype-pretty-code, remark-math, remark-toc, Netlify, Vercel, yaml, mdast-util-mdx-jsx, remark-smartypants, hast-util-to-html, hast-util-to-text, remark-parse, unist-util-visit-parents

## Side by side

| | docusaurus | astro |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 130,242 lines written, 674 code files | 293,247 lines written, 1,041 code files |
| Who writes it | 2.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 2, 2026, 6,932 commits, 66,654 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 15,157 commits, 63,732 stars |
| Tests | 272 test files. 35.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 3,163 test files. 4.4% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, docusaurus or astro?

astro, with 293,247 lines written; docusaurus has 130,242.

The proof: [withastro/astro's code at commit ff1e2fb](https://github.com/withastro/astro/tree/ff1e2fb2f908d637e6b60a293c26db552c88f562)

### Which has more GitHub stars, docusaurus or astro?

docusaurus, with 66,654 stars; astro has 63,732.

The proof: [meta/docusaurus on GitHub](https://github.com/meta/docusaurus)

### Which has more tests, docusaurus or astro?

astro, with 3,163 test files; docusaurus has 272.

The proof: [withastro/astro's code at commit ff1e2fb](https://github.com/withastro/astro/tree/ff1e2fb2f908d637e6b60a293c26db552c88f562)

### Which was updated more recently, docusaurus or astro?

astro: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and docusaurus's on November 2, 2026.

The proof: [withastro/astro's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/withastro/astro/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, docusaurus or astro?

docusaurus: an AI signed 2.7% of its commits, with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot; in astro, 0.2%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in meta/docusaurus](https://seerepo.com/r/meta/docusaurus/ai)

## Sources

- meta/docusaurus: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 2a89055 (https://github.com/meta/docusaurus/tree/2a89055951c6670a7c8dc390d3b84c7cd5ef7b34)
- withastro/astro: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit ff1e2fb (https://github.com/withastro/astro/tree/ff1e2fb2f908d637e6b60a293c26db552c88f562)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.