Frontend

I'm beginning to see the limitations of CSS for general designs and styles 

What's the next level above that for the Astro framework? 

(I can do some design in Figma and Photoshop, plugins welcome)

What do you mean by limitations and next level above CSS?

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

Lol, I should say I've been coding for 1 week now so no clue if what I said makes sense

That’s fair— a hard part of doing something new is knowing what to ask to progress.

As Mike said, it all ends up being CSS + HTML at the end of the day.

If your goal is to become a strong frontend eng, handwriting CSS will be necessary.

Otherwise…

Got it, there's no shortcut to export Figma or graphic designs to some usable code format?

css is very easy and very hard at the same time 

but CSS is pretty much the only choice

unless you want to draw literally every element manually using an HTML Canvas or something (don’t)