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 5.11 - new Content Security Policy (CSP) features, the ability to opt out of HTML streaming when using the Node.js adapter, and more!
Astro 5.12 - TOML support for content loaders, experimental raw environment values, an improved Netlify adapter development experience, and more!
Starlight 0.35 - New ways to customize your docs, including icons in asides, attributes for autogenerated sidebar links, page slug processing, and more!
Upgrade Astro today for all the latest goodies!
The Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention this month:
- [Article] Read why Duende is supporting Astro (and Starlight) with their open source sponsorship.
- [Video] Astro does micro-frontends the right way according to Awesome.
- [Article] Alex Russel noticed that 11ty and Astro have won the hearts of frontend's best minds when creating a collection of links and resources for folks getting into performance and platform-oriented web development.
- [Tool] Astro YouTube Loader by Matt Kane includes both a build time loader and experimental runtime YouTube video loading for live content collections.
- [Article] Find out how to implement basic authorization in Astro from Rishi Raj Jain.
- [Tool] Starlight Auto Drafts by Hideoo lets you control the behavior of your draft pages and hide them from your navigation sidebar in production.
- [Video] Code with Petitpois walks you through "Astro's superpower": content collections as part of the Beginner Bites series.
- [Article] Learn why A0mineTV thinks Astro is the modern take on static site generation and should be at the top of your consideration list.
- [Tool] Astro HTML Helper by kjrocker is a CLI tool for transforming plain HTML into more idiomatic Astro syntax.
- [Article] Take a nerdy romp through an interactive demo of the famous Tower of Hanoi puzzle packed with tools, tips, and tricks to level up your View Transitions API skills in Martin's VT Bag of Tricks.
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[Bonus: 🧑🚀] We know it can be difficult keeping up with Astro and all its updates. (The GitHub mobile app can't even display our CHANGELOG anymore! 😅 Good thing you can now view the Astro CHANGELOG as a pretty website thanks to Felix Schneider.)
It's also easier to keep your editors and agentic coding tools up to date, too! Our new Astro Docs MCP (Model Context Protocol) server provides real-time access to the latest documentation, and we already have instructions for adding to several of your favourite assistants. Visit the new Build Astro with AI tools guide in our documentation for more information.
See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →
Theme of the Month - Ella Mae
See more new themes and templates →
Now using Astro: Netlify Docs
Astro Toolbox: Color Contrast Checker
Weird Wide Web: Glyph Editor
See more innovative, quirky, fun websites built with Astro →
Cosmic Canvas: Tommy Parker
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!
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