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Beginner's Guide to Astro

What is Frontmatter?

The section at the top of a file, between two lines of three dashes.

In a Markdown file, it holds facts about the content, such as the title and date. In an .astro file, it holds code that runs while your site is built.

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Try "blog", "deploy" or "EmDash".