Astro will generate those HTML pages you can serve 'from bog standard Apache'.
You can then use all of those npm packages to do whatever processing on your data that you want to do to generate the content and the pages and then just serve it as HTML.
I'm a backend dev, but Astro is the first time a front end framework has made sense to me for years. It fits my mental model of how the web works - serving up HTML pages with some JS just like we did 20 years ago. Its just that I can have it connect to a DB or an API to pull the data at build time so that I can have it generate all of the pages.
You can then use all of those npm packages to do whatever processing on your data that you want to do to generate the content and the pages and then just serve it as HTML.
I'm a backend dev, but Astro is the first time a front end framework has made sense to me for years. It fits my mental model of how the web works - serving up HTML pages with some JS just like we did 20 years ago. Its just that I can have it connect to a DB or an API to pull the data at build time so that I can have it generate all of the pages.