How I Built a Swedish Crossword Solver with Astro and 400,000+ Words I recently launched Korsordsakuten — a free Swedish crossword solver — and learned a lot about building SEO-driven content sites with Astro. Here's what I built and what I learned along the way. What It Does The site lets you: Search 400,000+ Swedish word forms by clue, pattern, or length Filter answers by letter count (e.g. "give me 6-letter synonyms only") Browse prefix/suffix indexes (words starting with SK, ending with ERA etc.) Solve anagrams Play a daily Wordle-style word game The Stack Astro 6 (SSR mode, Node adapter) — perfect for content-heavy sites. Each route is server-rendered but the build is still fast. Node.js 22 on Render (free tier) GitHub Pages as a static sitemap mirror — more on this below Zero client-side JS frameworks. Just vanilla JS where needed.…