It's the Astro monthly newsletter! Strap in for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from our first-ever in-person live event!
— FKS / @FredKSchott
Notable Releases
Astro 4.8 — The first release of Astro Actions (experimental), request rewriting (experimental), and some exciting performance improvements!
Astro 4.9 — A brand new Container API for rendering Astro components in a test environment, Rails, PHP, or wherever you might need.
Starlight 0.23 — Performance improvements, MDX optimization, and more.
Psst… by the time you’re reading this in June, newer versions of Astro & Starlight are already out! We’ll cover those officially in our next monthly blog post.
Astro Together 2024 — Recap!
We did a conference! Thanks to everyone who came out to Astro Together, our first-ever in-person event in the heart of Montreal. If you missed it, don’t worry! You can check out the full recap + photo gallery here.
The Future of Astro
Last week we launched a new three-part series on The Future of Astro, covering three big new features we have planned for Astro in 2024:
Individually, each feature is a huge step forward for Astro and what is possible in the framework. Together, they represent our vision for the next generation of content-driven frontend architecture.
Stay tuned for more updates about all three of these new features over the next few months!
Community Updates
Last month we welcomed @Jumper and @Atharva to the project as our newest Astro maintainers! Welcome y’all!
We also awarded over $1,000 of our OSS sponsorship funds to standout community contributors who went above and beyond this month: @egpereira, @martrapp, @liruifengv, and @adaliszk.
The Community Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention in the month of May from around the internet:
[Video] Watch @WebDevSimplified recreate Shadcn’s Docs in 30 minutes with Starlight.
[Article] Go behind the scenes for the making of Eva’s Guestbook with Astro DB.
[Tutorial] See how to add diagrams to your Astro site with MermaidJS and Playwright by @cloudconrad.
[Article] Introduction to the Astro web framework (Udemy course) by @TechRazor
[Video] How to send in-app notifications with Astro by @jeffeverhart383
[Article] How Astro changed my life on the Web by @lukealexdavis
[Article] Integrate Stripe with Astro by @zellwk
[Article] Feature Flags with Vercel Toolbar and Astro by @tledoux
[Article] Animate code blocks by @dertimonius
[Article] Add Progress bar using View Transitions by @martrapp
BONUS CONTENT!! A special podcast from UIBuzz on what it takes to complete a WordPress to Astro site conversion.
Theme of the Month - Quartiere
See more new themes and templates →
Astro in the Wild: SquiggleConf
That’s a wrap! 👋
Catch up on everything else you might missed this month in the monthly blog post and our “Future of Astro” blog series on Twitter.
Want to be features in next month’s newsletter? Post your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in our #showcase channel in our Discord!