Folex Lite is a free Astro theme built for small creative teams — it gives you a lighter visual starter for a portfolio-style or agency landing site without the weight of a larger theme.

Folex Lite is a free Astro starter for creative teams that need one sharp visual presence fast, without stepping into a much larger agency theme.

It works best when the first goal is a polished landing page or lightweight portfolio-style site, not a full company content system. The value here is speed, clarity, and a cleaner visual starting point.

Why Use The Lite Version

Folex Lite keeps the setup simple while still giving you real project structure.

• Free to download and launch
• Fast Lighthouse-friendly base
• Sticky header from config
• Nested dropdown navigation
• Multilingual cleanup script
• Three contact form provider options

What You Can Launch Fast

The source project keeps the route set intentionally small.

• Home
• Portfolio Single
• Custom content pages through the shared page route
• 404 Page

This makes Folex Lite useful when you want one solid landing page first and the option to grow later.

Navigation That Is Ready To Grow

Even the free version includes a stronger menu system than most starter themes.

• Multi-level dropdown menus
• Badge support in menu data
• External link support
• Mobile-friendly navigation

You edit the header structure in JSON instead of touching header logic.

{
  "name": "Pages",
  "hasChildren": true,
  "children": [
    { "name": "Home", "url": "/" },
    { "name": "Portfolio", "url": "/portfolio/custom-portfolio-slug/" }
  ]
}

Clean Config For Fast Edits

The important settings stay easy to find.

• src/config/config.toml
• src/config/menu.en.json
• src/config/menu.fr.json
• src/config/social.json

You can control the sticky header and contact form provider from one file.

[settings]
stickyHeader = true
contactFormProvider = "formsubmit.co"

Multilingual Only If You Need It

Folex Lite includes the multilingual structure, but you are not forced to keep it.

If the project only needs one language:

npm run remove-multilingual

That is useful for quick launches where the second language would only slow down content work.

Contact Setup Without Extra Work

The source project supports three form submission paths:

• formsubmit.co
• formspree
• netlify

That gives you a practical starter path for small launches and a cleaner upgrade path later.

AI-Assisted Coding Ready

Folex Lite ships with built-in instructions for AI coding assistants, so tools like Claude, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Windsurf understand the theme from the first prompt — its structure, content model, and conventions.

Instead of guessing, your assistant follows the same rules the theme is built on: where sections, content, and schemas live, which shared components to reuse, and how to stay on the design system.

• AGENTS.md — full project rules for any agent (also read natively by OpenAI Codex)
• CLAUDE.md — guidance for Claude and Claude Code
• GEMINI.md — guidance for the Gemini CLI
• SKILLS.md — step-by-step recipes for the jobs you do most (add a section or page, rebrand, manage languages, add an icon)
• .cursor/rules, .github/copilot-instructions.md, .windsurf/rules — editor rules for Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Windsurf

The payoff: faster edits, fewer mistakes, and AI output that matches the theme instead of fighting it.

A Good Free Starting Point

If you need a free creative starter that looks polished quickly and stays simple enough to launch without cleanup drama — Folex Lite is the fastest way to get there.

If you want more pages, services, blog, team pages, and portfolio layouts, move to Folex Pro.