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Welcome To Astral Themes

Astral Themes are premium Astro and Tailwind CSS website themes designed for building personal or commercial websites. Each theme is easily customizable in both style and content, and is regularly updated to align with the latest versions of Astro and Tailwind CSS, as well as current best practices in web development.

This documentation is intended to help you get up and running with your theme as quickly as possible.

Getting Started

1. Accessing Your Theme

After purchasing an individual theme or a full access license, your theme will be available through the Polar.sh portal.

2. Requirements

The following are required to work with Astral Themes:

  • Node.js — v24.11.0 or higher recommended
  • Text Editor — Visual Studio Code with the official Astro extension recommended
  • Terminal — required for Astro CLI commands

3. Installation

  1. Access your theme through the Polar.sh portal.
  2. Navigate to the theme’s GitHub repository, then either fork and clone the repository to your local machine, or download the ZIP archive.
  3. Install project dependencies by running the following command in your terminal:
   npm install
  1. Start the development server and open the theme in your browser at localhost:4321:
   npm run dev
  1. To generate a production build, run:
   npm run build

4. Deployment

Your website can be deployed using any of the following hosting providers:

  • Cloudflare Pages (recommended)
  • Vercel
  • Netlify

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