This month in Astro
Welcome to our second email edition of "This Month in Astro!". Let's dive into the update:
Updates from Mission Control
- We have a new channel on Discord
#events, where you can share events happening online or in your community, post when you’re going live on a stream to get viewers, and more. - We discussed creating an
ecosystem-cisimilar to Vite and Volar for better communication about breaking changes in Astro updates with integration and theme authors. - We expanded the Astroverse to daily.dev: updates, releases, showcase items, and more. Another way to get your Astro news and interact with the community. Join our squad!
Read more updates in our monthly blogpost.
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New Releases
While you wait, catch up on Astro and Starlight core releases:
Welcome to our new Maintainers
Fryuni, Oliver, and liruifengv have joined Astro as Maintainers!
Welcome! 🎉
Docs
This month Docs added two new guide pages to docs on adding authentication and e-commerce options to your Astro project! These are two popular features that people ask about, and we wanted to provide some basic guidance to get you started.
Our weekly Discord call “Talking and Doc’ing” is a chance for you to watch Team Docs work in public, jump in a shared Codespace or Gitpod Workspace, and contribute to the docs live, together. This month’s topics included:
- Part two of an epic PR to make docs URL paths consistent with the locations in the sidebar settings that included:
- 📅 2 weeks.
- 🕓 4 hours of live streaming.
- 🧑🤝🧑 10 people in the same shared codebase at once
- 🗃 678 files changed.
- ✅ ALL CHECKS PASSED.
- Figuring out what a Starlight
<Steps />component might look like. Just an ordered list? We think not! - Exploring building in Astro's native i18n routing features to the default Starlight template.
Community Awards: January 2024
- 🌟 $500 to Florian for leading and supporting our integration builders, and contributing to all aspects of the Astro project and community.
- 🍾 $250 to Oliver for shipping features in Astro core and providing helpful community support.
- 🎈 $250 to Kevin for consistent contributions to Starlight development
- 🎊 $250 to Happydev for tackling several Astro code issues, fixes and improvements.
- 🎉 $250 to Glad777 for exceptional community involvement in support and docs
Check them out and learn more about the Community Awards on our community website.
Favorite Discord Quote
"Astro and View Transitions helped me build the portfolio I've always wanted ❤️. Thanks so much to the Astro team!" - @mbarvian
Content
Because you can never get tired of watching and reading Astro Content.
- Get Started with Directus and Astro
- Add diagrams to Starlight using D2
- Why I choose Astro for web app development
Discover even more content created this month in our monthly blogpost.
Tips & Tools
The latest community-built utilities and integrations to help you build with Astro.
Discover everything showcased, including tools for working with OG images, e-commerce, authentication, and the dev toolbar in our monthly blogpost.
Themes & Templates
Several new Astro themes were added & released this month. Try them out!
- Illustration based template by @manulthanura
- Quantum by @lastchaos.
- ScrewFast by @soslan
- MinimalStudio by @mike_andreuzza
Discover even more new themes and templates in our monthly blogpost.
Built with Astro: Showcase Additions
Catch up on everything showcased on the community call! Preview all the new sites from the community and around the web this month on the monthly blog post.
- Some fancy animations and beautiful UI in Astro? prodkt.cloud does it all.
- Wake up with warawul.coffee, an e-commerce website built with Astro.
- Looking for a new browser? Check out Waterfox — Starlight docs included!
Want to be on this list next month? Post your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in our #showcase channel in our Discord!