The Astro Post - March 2025

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

Astro 5.5 brings better support for diagramming tools like Mermaid and D2, experimental sessions gains type safety, better Markdown compatibility, and more!

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Post] Discover how Astro allows Alejo Stereo to build websites in a remote Colombian village, living on a tight budget, with painfully slow internet that drops every five minutes and power outages happening all the time.
2. [Video] Watch Astro core maintainer Sarah Rainsberger chatting about Astro's open source, community-building docs on GitHub Open Source Friday with Astro Docs.
3. [Article] Lucky Media shares how Astro has transformed their approach to web development.
4. [Tool] Check out this react-router-astro starter template for creating a server-rendered SPA using React Router and Astro from Arsh.
5. [Article] Let Matthew Tyson show you Astro with HTMX makes server-side rendering made easy on InfoWorld.
6. [Tool] Protect your content with the astro-ai-robots-text Astro integration to disallow AI scrapers in robots.txt from Chris Swithinbank.
7. [Video] Let Chris Pennington / Coding in Public introduce you to the new component library Starwind UI: shadcn/ui for Astro.
8. [Article] Discover some advanced styling tips for view transitions animations from Martin Trapp and the View Transitions Bag of Tricks.
9. [Tool] Refresh your content without showing unnecessary loading screens with the astro-rerun-island integration from Reuben Tier that reruns your persistent server islands on astro:after-swap.
10. [Article] See how Emma Goto is building a digital garden with Obsidian and Astro.
11. [Bonus: 📰] Astro reached 50K stars on GitHub!

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

Theme of the Month - Astro Developer Portfolio

See more new themes and templates →

Now using Astro: cloudflare.com

See more new websites built with Astro →

Weird Wide Web: Space Bingo

See more quirky, fun websites built with Astro →

Wait, what? That's an Astro site?!

See more incredible 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!

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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