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
This month brought Astro 5.8 which updates the minimum required version of Node.js to 18.20.8.
The Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention this month:
- [Article] Learn how Michelin integrated ApostropheCMS and Astro to boost frontend performance, speed up development, and improve the editor experience by ApostropheCMS.
- [Video] Let core Astro maintainer Emanuele (Ema) Stoppa take you through Astro's not-yet-released experimental feature: Content Security Policy (CSP) in the latest installment of TBD: Talking Before Deploying, a twice-monthly call in the Astro Discord.
- [Article] See how Anil built SmartGamer: an SEO-Driven Amazon Gaming Deal Tracker with Astro, Svelte, and Supabase.
- [Tool] Dither your images before serving them to your audience for quicker image loading times combined with a lower carbon footprint with Astro Image Dithering by bashbers.
- [Article] Find out how Sean C Davis always sets up a new Astro project in My first five minutes in Astro.
- [Tool] Email never goes out of style, so Hunter Bertoson was hard at working this month bringing you both Astro Mailer, for sending email notifications via any SMTP service using Nodemailer and Astro Resend to send email notifications for form submissions using Resend.
- [Video] Ever wonder how the Astro docs are made? Go behind the scenes with Sarah Rainsberger and Team Docs on Talking and Doc'ing, our weekly Discord call that we streamed live on YouTube for the very first time. (Like and subscribe for more Astro community content!)
- [Article] Astro supported cross-document view transitions long before browsers offered native support. Martin Trapp and his eye-popping demos in the View Transitions Bag of Tricks want to make sure you don't forget to try out same-page view transitions: the slick way to visualize dynamic changes of elements on your page.
- [Tool] Your Starlight code blocks are expressive, but are they huge?? Starlight Code Block Fullscreen by Frosty Bee adds fullscreen toggle functionality to Expressive Code blocks in your documentation, while Starlight Custom Navigation brings custom page navigation features, including support for keyboard shortcuts.
- [Article] Get started with the Sessions API in Astro with a helpful guide by Nathan Lawson.
- [Bonus: 🧑🚀] Learn Astro on Scrimba, an interactive code-learning platform helping devs learn by merging the IDE and videos into one. Use Astro's Scrimba affiliate link to get 20% off and support the Astro open source project!
See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →
Theme of the Month - Modern Personal Blog
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Now using Astro: Ricola
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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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