Tips: Why not write logic in Astro layouts

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I wrote in Astro page layout and middleware execution order how I moved some logic to a layout.

Had to roll back because turns out I couldn’t run Astro.redirect() in a layout, since Astro tells me the response has already been sent to the client.

Turns out this was something I absolutely needed, so moved back to handling the logic in the pages, which was ultimately the right thing from the start.

Discovering new things each and every day.

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Fix .md in links
2: Moving a simple site to Astro
3: Astro, fix Form error “Content-Type was not one of…”
4: Astro page layout and middleware execution order
5: Astro, set caching headers
6: Astro, set response header
7: Deploying an Astro + PostgreSQL app on Railway
8: Using Astro locals
9: Using Cloudflare Turnstile on a Astro form
10: Using reCAPTCHA on a Astro form
11: ▶︎ Why not write logic in Astro layouts