How is Astro like an onion?

It has layers... content layers!

Strap in for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including the experimental release of the Content Layer API!

Notable Releases

• Astro 4.13, 4.13, & 4.15 were all released in August! These releases brought you the experimental Content Layer API, stable Astro Actions, and more.
• Starlight 0.26 is persisting… synced tab and sidebar scroll state across page navigations. There’s also a new LinkButton component.
• Cloudinary Official SDK for Astro
• Cloudflare’s new docs built with Starlight
• PS: Astro officially joins Reddit

Community Updates

• We are pleased to welcome our newest Astro maintainer Lorenzo Lewis! Thank you for your contributions and camaraderie, and welcome aboard, astronaut! 🫡
• Many of Astro’s core maintainers will be speaking at ViteConf 2024 in October. Get your free ticket and show off your Astro pride!
• We awarded over $1,000 of our OSS sponsorship funds to standout community contributors who went above and beyond this month: @Thomas, @kian, @HenriFournier, @Mayank and @AdamMatthiesen.

The Top 10

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

1. 🥳 Sign up for the Astro Party and learn Astro with Jason Lengstorf! Get notified when tickets for the September 17 workshop go live.
2. [Article] How I Migrated From Wordpress to Astro: Boosted Pagespeed Scores to 100% and Cut 100% Hosting cost
3. [Video] Did Astro Fix Server Actions and Suspense? with James Q Quick and bholmesdev.
4. [Article] How I rewrote my HUGE Gatsby site in Astro and learned to love it in the process
5. [Article] Beyond React: How Astro and Its Server Islands Work where Richard MacManus explores Astro's "Server Islands" technique and compares it to React frameworks.
6. [Tool] Learn how to Easily manage your multilingual Astro site in CloudCannon with CloudCannon’s new Astro Rosey starter.
7. [Video] Exploring the Astro Content Layer API with Bryan Robinson from Hygraph.
8. [Tool] Inox Tools: Request State - Share request state between components both and from server to client.
9. [Video] Find out how to get MUCH BETTER Performance with Astro Server Islands with James Q Quick.
10. [Tool] View Transitions Bag of Tricks: "InspectionChamber" - Add a control panel to examine your view transition animations.
11. [Bonus: Content loaders!] The Astro community has been building several content loaders to pull data into content collections from remote source such as Stripe, Notion, and even Chuck Norris facts!

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Theme of the Month - DarkRise Astro

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Astro in the Wild: About Satellites

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That’s a wrap! 👋

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