It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including the release of Astro 5.2! 🚀
Notable Releases
Astro 5.2 brings Tailwind 4 support, a new way to access config values in your pages, better trailing slash handling, support for external redirects, and more!
Starlight 0.31 is hot off the presses with built-in print styles! Also included this month: better site search algorithm and syntax highlighting improvements.
The Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention this month around the internet:
- [Report] Astro continues to shine in interest, retention, and positivity in the The State of React: 2024. And, see how "Astro stole everyone’s heart" in the Netlify 2024 Frameworks Year in Review.
- [Video] Catch the inside scoop: sit in on This Dot Media's Astro training from the totally not biased Ryan Furrer who totally knew this was going to be streamed.
- [Article] Let the View Transitions Bag of Tricks to help you Make an Informed Choice: Decide whether to stick with the
or embrace browser-native cross-document view transitions. Just getting started? Go have some Fun With View Transitions! - [Tool] Check out the new
@inox-tools/server-islandsintegration that provides a set of utilities to work with Astro’s Server Islands by Luiz Ferraz. - [Article] Read the story of building the best open source documentation experience by migrating the 4500 page Cloudflare developer docs to Starlight.
- [Tool] Load files stored in a Github Repository into your content collections with
astro-github-file-loaderfrom @gingerchew. - [Video] See how to handle 2 types of Astro Actions errors from Chris Pennington / Coding In Public.
- [Article] Learn how you can use Astro on its own to meet your SSR-first app needs with just Vanilla Astro, No Framework Needed by Jonathan Gamble.
- [Tool] Want to build an Astro integration? Just choose an Astro Integration Template by Florian Lefebvre and get started!
- [Article] Read about the new
@unpic/astroimage service and components, as well as image components for almost all of Astro’s supported frontend frameworks, in the Unpic v1.0 announcement by Matt Kane. - [Bonus: 📰] See what The New Stack had to say about Astro's experimental Sessions API.
See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →
Theme of the Month - Simply Notes
See more new themes and templates →
Now using Starlight: Netlify CLI Docs
See more new websites built with Astro →
Weird Wide Web: Jam with Music
See more quirky, fun websites built with Astro →
That’s a wrap! 👋
That's it for this month! As you can see, the Astroverse has blasted off into 2025. For the full round up, see our What's New in Astro monthly blog post!
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