The Astro Post - February 2025

It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month! 🚀

Notable Releases

Astro 5.3 brings faster page rendering, easier setup for experimental sessions, and more!

Astro 5.4 brings remote image optimization in Markdown, enhanced security for dev and preview servers, and more!

Starlight 0.32 is on the road to v1 with new route data middleware, i18n API access for plugins, updated plugin hooks, multisite search support, and more!

The Top 10

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

1. [Report] See a peek behind the scenes of Astro Together 2024 in Montreal. Tourisme Montréal published a Case study on the event: How Vocation Events brought tech company Astro together.
2. [Video] Watch Astro core maintainer Florian Levebvre show you how to Customize your site with Astro integrations at TheJam.dev. Florian even manages to build a small integration during the short 10 minute talk!
3. [Article] Learn now to set up unit tests for Astro components from Angelika Cathor.
4. [Tool] Check out the astro-typesafe-routes integration for typesafe URL generation and routing from @feelixe.
5. [Article] Reflect on A Year of Headless Harmony: ApostropheCMS + Astro with Alex Gilbert.
6. [Tool] Make your site sound as good as it looks with Zorn Player, a video player built specifically for Astro sites with several customizable features.
7. [Video] See how to Add Automatic Speech Recognition to your an Astro web app with Craig Dennis.
8. [Article] Explore Astro Islands By building a chat app with Raymond F using the Stream API.
9. [Tool] Publish your thoughts in style with astro-obsidian-starlight-notes-template, a Starlight starter template by @adityatelange that uses your Obsidian notes for content.
10. [Article] Find out how Kedasha (That Lady Dev) migrated from WordPress to Astro in only three days!
11. [Bonus: 📰] See what The New Stack had to say about building an Astro Blog on Bolt, an in-browser AI web development agent from StackBlitz.

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

Theme of the Month - Zaggonaut

See more new themes and templates →

Now using Starlight: Michelin.com

See more new websites built with Astro →

Weird Wide Web: isAstro?

See more quirky, fun websites 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

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