The Astro Post - August 2025

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

Minor releases introduce new features and improvements. Check out what's new!

Astro 5.13 - experimental improvements to handling your environment variables, support for Chrome DevTools workspaces, and more!

Upgrade Astro today for all the latest goodies!

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Article] Discover how their workflow was transformed when Digital Empr make the switch from WordPress to Astro + Sanity to build their client sites.
2. [Video] Watch The Algorithm Alchemist explain how Islands are saving the web.
3. [Article] Compare numbers head to head when Alan Norbauer moved from Next.js to Astro: A Page Size Comparison.
4. [Tool] Astro Editor by Danny Smith is a CMS designed specifically for Astro content collections, inspired by iA Writer.
5. [Article] Follow the story of how Sarthak Mishra spent weeks perfecting an Astro TOC component, and see it in action on their blog.
6. [Tool] Astro Render Component is a plug-and-play Astro component renderer by Igor Dimitrijević for fast, zero-config testing in any DOM-like JS/TS environment.
7. [Video] Let Code with Petipois show you how to add subscriptions to your Astro website in minutes.
8. [Tool] Aitor's Astro content loader for Obsidian lets you treat your Obsidian vault as a native content collection.
9. [Article] Martin and his VT Bag of Tricks shares a round up of view transition fails and fixes: quirks, caveats, and little gremlins that can cancel your animation, plus what you can do about them. Applicable whether you use Astro's client router or native view transitions in Astro directly!
10. [Tool] Starlight changelogs by Hideoo allows you to display your project changelogs right in your Starlight documentation site.
11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] It's easier than ever to find a way to contribute to Astro! Our updated contributing page links you directly to Astro issues labelled help wanted and good first issue. Then, get your personalized Astro Badge to show off your contributions!

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

Theme of the Month - Astro Terminal

See more new themes and templates →

Now using Astro: Travelodge

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: Horizon

See more innovative, quirky, fun websites built with Astro →

Cosmic Canvas: Renault

See more stunning and creative 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!

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

Want to be featured in next month’s newsletter? Post your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in our ⁠#showcase channel in our Discord!