It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a small sample from our monthly What's New? blog post.

Be sure to check out the whole post for everything you might have missed from the last month! 🚀

Notable Releases

Astro's April Launch Week brought Astro 5.7 with stable sessions and SVG components, and a new experimental Fonts API.

Launch week also featured Starlight 0.34 with built-in heading anchor links, Tailwind 4 support, and CSS cascade layers.

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Report] See how Astro stacked up in a comparison of React-based Static Site Generators in 2025: Performance and Scalability by Crystallize.
2. [Video] Let Chris Pennington (Coding in Public) take you through Astro's newest feature: session storage.
3. [Article] Learn why Kleinanzeigen, Germany’s largest classifieds site, picked Astro over Next.js.
4. [Tool] Astro Tanstack by Phuoc allows you to build a Single Page Application (SPA) with Astro, TanStack Router and Query.
5. [Article] See how Thomas Ledoux wrote his first Astro integration that pushes data to the Algolia API automatically on every production deploy.
6. [Tool] The Astro O dev toolbar app from Shinya Fujino previews your page on social platforms and shows its open graph data.
7. [Video] Get started with SEO in Astro with Grow Hedges.
8. [Article] Discover why view transitions might break on mobile from Martin Trapp and the View Transitions Bag of Tricks.
9. [Tool] Use the cfetch Astro integration by StudioCMS for a cacheable fetch function for Astro SSR.
10. [Article] Learn the secret to passing data to a bundled script in Astro from Florian Lefebvre.
11. [Bonus: 📰] Astro passes two million monthly npm downloads!

See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →

Theme of the Month - MacOS Portfolio

See more new themes and templates →

Now using Astro: Firebase Studio

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: Hypertext TV

See more quirky, fun websites built with Astro →

Wait, what? That's an Astro site?!

See more incredible sites built with Astro →

That’s a wrap! 👋

That's it for this month! For the full round up, with several more sites, articles, videos, tools, and themes, see our What's New in Astro monthly blog post!

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

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