Romaji to Kana Converter: Astro — Chapter 1, Exercise 1
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TASK
Scaffold the project exactly as this chapter describes, confirm
npm run dev serves the placeholder page at Astro's own default port,
and inspect the real generated astro.config.mjs -- confirm the
default output mode and that no adapter appears anywhere in it yet.

SOLUTION

Running through the chapter's own commands:

  npm create astro@latest -- romaji-converter-astro
  cd romaji-converter-astro
  npm run dev

The dev server starts and prints a local URL -- Astro's own real
default is http://localhost:4321. Opening that address in a browser
shows Astro's own starter page (or, once the chapter's own placeholder
index.astro has been pasted in, the "Romaji to Kana Converter / Setup
confirmed" page described in the chapter itself). Either result
confirms the same thing: a real, working Astro project, running with
nothing beyond a default scaffold.

Opening the real, generated astro.config.mjs shows something close
to:

  import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';

  export default defineConfig({});

Two things are worth confirming by actually reading this file rather
than assuming them:

1. There is no `output` key set anywhere in the config object. Astro
   doesn't need one written out explicitly for the default to apply --
   leaving it unset IS choosing 'static', not an unfinished setup.

2. There is no `adapter` key either, and no adapter package (like
   @astrojs/node) appears in package.json's own dependencies. A
   default scaffold never installs one, since a purely static site
   has no server to run at all -- there's nothing for an adapter to
   attach to yet.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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It doesn't just claim the default output mode is 'static' -- it
verifies that claim against the real, generated config file, and
confirms the absence of an adapter the same way, rather than treating
either fact as something to take on faith from the chapter text alone.