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. Major releases introduce breaking changes, stabilize features, and provide improvements. Check out what's new!
- Astro 6 is here with a refactored dev server, an experimental Rust compiler, live content collections, CSP, and more.
- Astro 6.1 - More control over image optimization, more Markdown configuration options, updated hooks for working with i18n, and more.
- Starlight 0.38 updated for Astro 6, improved header link styling, improved CJK font rendering, and more!
Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!
Community News
Astro Team News
Join the Astro core team for a unique event showcasing new and upcoming features in the heart of London on April 9. Register for the event on the Astro Luma page and secure your spot today!
Shout-outs
Think we don't notice you? Think again! This month, we'd like to give some 🌮 to:
@rururuxfor contributing helpful PRs!@AitorMTand@mochi-yufor updating translations to Astro's docs!- all of our theme authors for working so hard to update so many of their existing Astro themes to v6!
See more about what's happening in the Astro community →
The Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention this month:
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[Article] Read how Iulia Iacoban undertook the Experian website migration, ultimately choosing Astro: The Framework That Didn't Judge Our Legacy Code after developing several proof of concepts on different stacks.
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[Tool] Preview your Astro components with Astro Stargazer. Switch viewports, test states, and toggle dark mode without writing a single throwaway page.
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[Video] Take a first look at Astro 6 with Chris Pennington/Coding In Public.
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[Tool] AT Astro Loader from @chrisvander provides AT Protocol-powered loaders for Astro content collections.
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[Article] Is Astro good for SEO? Lucky Media thinks so, and tells us why it outperforms other frameworks.
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[Tool] Astro Env Inspector by @shiftEscape is a dev toolbar integration that shows all your environment variables — grouped, masked, and searchable — directly inside
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[Video] Learn How to set up Content Security Policy in Astro 6 from Mindful Auth.
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[Tool] GreenLight VSCode extension provides a visual drag-and-drop HTML editor for Markdown, HTML, and Astro components.
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[Article] Robert Camden walks through Testing Live Content Collections in Astro V6 using The Movie Database (TMDB) API.
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[Tool] Lexington SEO renders SEO tags in your page
<head>using a single<AstroSeo>component. Includes meta and link tags, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, Facebook, robots, language alternates, and more. -
[Bonus: 🧑🚀] This month, CloudCannon showed off their new Astro Component Starter and issued a challenge to the Astro community to transform the Component Starter into an incredible web page. The three prizes of $1,500 USD were awarded to:
- Felix Schneider for trueberryless-org
- Lawrence_sticks for Kairos
- David V Kimball for Signal
Congratulations to everyone! What will you build with the Astro Component Starter?
See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →
Now using Astro: Svenska Dagbladet
Weird Wide Web: Books Recommended By
Weird Wide Web: ATmosphereConf
See more innovative, quirky, inspiring, empowering, or just plain fun websites built with Astro →
Cosmic Canvas: Dave Holloway
See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →
Theme of the Month - Blackspike
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
- 🦣 @astro@webtoo.ls on Mastodon
- 🐦 @astrodotbuild on X
- 💼 withastro on LinkedIn
Want to be featured in next month's newsletter? Submit or share your sites, themes, articles, videos, integrations, and more:
- ⭐ 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
#showcasechannel!
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