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 7.1 - more CSP options, custom pagination URLs, multiple dev servers, lower memory content collections, and more!

Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!

Community News

Astro Team News

In case you missed the news last month, Astro is coming to Germany! Join Astro Maintainers on September 5th in Wiesbaden at our Partner Agency Seibert's HQ for talks, demos, and exclusive swag!

Visit the Astro Together FRA x Seibert event page for more details and to grab your spot as spaces are limited. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Never miss an Astro event by subscribing to the Astro Luma Calendar.

Shout-outs

Think we don't notice you? Think again! This month, we'd like to give some 🌮 to:

• @adamchal for being active and helpful in the core repo, docs, and our Discord community! Thank you for choosing to spend your time improving Astro!

See more about what's happening in the Astro community →

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Article] Bitdoze conducted an Astro 7 Benchmark: Build Times Cut in Half on a 743-Page Site.

2. [Tool] axiom-studio-for-starlight by pixelizing gives you a local-first browser editor for editing Markdown and MDX pages in Astro Starlight without touching raw files. Does not require a hosted backend, database, account system, or cloud sync.

3. [Article] See how Piotr Migrated a 62000-Page Multisite from Next.js to Astro for a university platform. The result was a simpler architecture, faster perceived performance, and significantly lower frontend overhead.

4. [Video] Find out what Astro's new Rust compiler means for you from Chris Pennington.

5. [Article] Ever wondered how to build an Astro integration? Flavio Copes walks you through it!

6. [Tool] astro-lilypond by kydecker is an Astro integration for displaying musical notation on the web. Render musical scores written in Lilypond via Markdown or with an Astro component.

7. [Article] - Rishi Raj Jain wants to make sure you know when NOT to hydrate your Astro Islands.

8. [Tool] astro-mesurer by OliverSpeir lets you measure and align elements on any Astro website from the Astro dev toolbar. Use Mesurer's own controls or keyboard shortcuts to inspect the page and make sure it measures up!

9. [Article] Learn about the new default whitespace handling in Astro 7.0 from Cassidy Williams.

10. [Tool] astro-emit-asset by delucis will emit static assets from Astro components and endpoints. Call a function, get a generated URL for your asset. For open graph images, generated PDFs, audio files, and more.

11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] Webflow and CodeTV ran a Hackathon to build a website that really lands! The challenge: build with Astro, animate with GSAP, and deploy to Webflow.

    See the contest page, blog posts and videos about the making of entry sites, watch the Code TV Web Dev Challenge episode, and explore some of the entries like Loading Today in our full July blog post.

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

Now using Astro Starlight: Mozilla

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: howtostore.food

Food Storage Guide: Learn the best ways to store different kinds of food items to reduce waste and maintain freshness.

Weird Wide Web: quiz-camisetas.moisesvalero.es

See more innovative, quirky, inspiring, empowering, or just plain fun websites built with Astro →

Cosmic Canvas: Oliver Rainer

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

Theme of the Month: Exquisitus for Starlight

See more new themes and templates →

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
• 🦣 @[email protected] on Mastodon
• 🐦 @astrodotbuild on X
• 💼 withastro on LinkedIn

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• ⭐ to the site showcase
• 🎨 to the theme catalogue
• 📦 with the proper keyword in your package.json
• 💬 on social media tagging the Astro account
• ... and of course, in our Discord #showcase channel!