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Beginner's Guide to Astro

What is Server island?

A part of a page that's rendered on the server when someone visits, while the rest of the page was built ahead of time.

You make one by adding server:defer to a component, and you can show fallback content while it loads. It needs an adapter, because a server has to render it. It's for personal or fresh content on an otherwise static page.

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