Introducing varsha: a premium website starter

Building a beautiful website from scratch takes too long. You start with a blank editor, wire up a design system, fight with routing, add documentation, set up a blog, configure SEO, handle dark mode, make it responsive — and before you know it, a week has passed and you still haven’t written your actual content.

varsha is our answer: a premium website starter template built on Astro 5 and Starlight, designed to get you from zero to a polished, deployed website in minutes.

What’s in the box

Every website needs the same fundamentals. varsha ships with them pre-configured:

• Beautiful design system — 18+ color palettes, light and dark mode, typography scale, spacing tokens, and reusable components
• Built-in documentation — Full Starlight docs site with search, i18n (English, Japanese, Chinese), and sidebar navigation
• Blog system — Markdown/MDX blog with author cards, tags, and RSS-ready structure
• Marketing pages — Landing page, features, showcase, and performance pages you can customize
• SEO optimized — Open Graph, Twitter cards, sitemap, robots.txt, and structured data out of the box
• Responsive — Works beautifully on mobile, tablet, and desktop
• Dark mode — Zero-config theme switching with system preference detection
• Deploy anywhere — Optimized for Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, or any static host

Built with Astro 5

We chose Astro for its islands architecture, which means zero JavaScript by default and blazing-fast performance. Your content ships as static HTML, and interactive components only hydrate when needed.

The result? Lighthouse scores of 100 across the board and optimized CSS delivery with inlined critical styles.

Fair usage credit

Every site built with varsha includes a small “Built with varsha by myndlabs” credit in the footer. It’s our way of letting people know about the starter — similar to how WordPress, Next.js, and other platforms include attribution.

The credit is tastefully designed, matches your theme, and links back to myndlabs.tech. It’s the only thing we ask in return for using this starter for free.

See it in action

Check out founder.myndlabs.tech — our founder’s personal site built entirely with varsha. Follow us on Instagram @yethikrishnar for updates, design tips, and new template releases.

Get started

npx create-varsha my-site
cd my-site
npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:4321 to see your site. Then head to the docs to learn about customization, deployment, and the design system.

Welcome to varsha.