The Astro Post - December 2024

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including the release of Astro 5.0! 🚀

Notable Releases

December was all about Astro 5.0! Content Layer, Server Islands, type-safe environment variables, experimental image and SVG features, Vite 6 and more!

Ready to upgrade? Use our official upgrade guide in docs.

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month around the internet:

1. [Report] Astro is now the #2 most-used framework, and #1 in retention and positivity according to The State of JS. Meanwhile, The New Stack notes that "Astro was certainly among the trendier web frameworks this year" in Web Development Trends in 2024: A Shift Back to Simplicity.
2. [Video] Discover why Astro 5 is a game changer according to Better Stack.
3. [Article] Find out why DatoCMS switched to Astro (and why it might interest you).
4. [Tool] Add support for incremental builds with the Domain Expansion Astro integration. (And, maybe the only docs with a "memes" section?)
5. [Article] Explore Modern e-commerce caching with Astro + Turso in a 3 part series from Netlify.
6. [Tool] Load your content collections data from .docx and .doc files with astro-word-loader from @gingerchew.
7. [Video] Learn how to use Astro's new server islands to display YouTube videos dynamically from Chris Pennington / Coding In Public.
8. [Article] Take a deep dive into how Arcjet built multi-framework docs with Astro Starlight.
9. [Tool] Need to check your content collections loader configuration? Use Astro glob() Loader Config Generator by Hideoo to generate the correct settings when using Astro's built-in glob() loader.
10. [Video] Let Self Teach Me teach you how to add authentication to your Astro site with WorkOS.
11. [Bonus: 📰] Catch up on Astro 5 reactions from Byte.dev, Front-end Fire, and DevTalles and the entire Astro Year in Review by Shinya Fujino.

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Theme of the Month - Pawstronaut

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Astro in the Wild: Zen Browser

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Now using Astro: The Unicode Consortium

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That’s a wrap! 👋

That's it for 2024. Thanks for spending your year with us, and we can't wait to see you again in 2025!

There is so. much. more. in the monthly "What's New?" showcase blog post including a 2D side scroller game built with Astro so give it a read!

And, follow us on social media for even more good stuff from around the community:

• 🦋 @astro.build on Bluesky
• 🦣 @astro@webtoo.ls on Mastodon
• 🐦 @astrodotbuild on X

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