It's the Astro monthly newsletter! Strap in for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and just-announced details about a new upcoming IN-PERSON ASTRO EVENT at the end of May!
— FKS / @FredKSchott
April Highlights
- Astro crosses 10,000,000 downloads on npm! 🥳
- Astro rose the ranks to "ready to use" in the latest Thoughtworks 2024 Technology Radar report.
- Astro 4.6 — Routing, internationalization, and experimental CSRF protection. Oh my!
- Astro 4.7 — A revamped dev toolbar API and more ways to keep your Astro project up to date.
Astro Together 2024
The Astro core team is going to Montreal, Canada!
Join us and 100+ other Astro developers for an evening of talks, community, and new feature launches from the Astro core team.
Astro Together is our first-ever in-person event to celebrate the Astro project and the people who use it to build the web. Join our entire core team in-person for a night of fun and a chance to connect with a group of awesome web developers and enthusiasts in downtown Montreal.
Community Updates
- This month we welcomed @Ming-Jun to the project as our newest Astro maintainer! Welcome, Ming!
- We also awarded over $1,000 of our OSS sponsorship funds to standout community contributors who went above and beyond this month: @alexanderniebuhr, @adamm2047, @hfornier, @casungo and @jlengstorf
- Our unstoppable Discord event streak continues this month with "Talking and Doc’ing" (Every Thursday, 12pm UTC), “Platform Corner” (This Friday, 1pm UTC) and the "Astro Community Call" (Tuesdays, 6pm UTC).
Articles & Tutorials
- We think Astro is pretty cool too, @aliciasykes!
- Using Astro and Server-Sent Events (SSE) to Build Realtime In-App Notifications tutorial by @rishirajjain
- Build a “likes” counter with Astro DB and Vercel tutorial by @k1350 (jp)
- Bag of Tricks by @martin adds a new section on View Transitions, now with experimental Starlight view transitions components!
Theme of the Month - Positivus
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Astro in the Wild: Font Awesome
See you in Montreal 👋
That’s a wrap on April! Catch up on everything else you might missed this month in the monthly blog post and see you on May 28 in Montreal for Astro Together 2024!
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