It's time for some exciting updates about Astro, Starlight, and a recap of everything you might have missed from the last month including Astro joining Bluesky! 🦋
Notable Releases
The best is yet to come!
Although Astro 5.0 beta saw several releases this month, Vite 6 is out and that can only mean one thing...
🚀 Keep your eyes on the skies for an upcoming Astro launch!
Community Updates
- We awarded over $1,000 of our OSS sponsorship funds to standout community contributors who went above and beyond this month: @apatel369, @casungo, @trueberryless, and @ArmandPhilippot.
See all current and past winners on our Community site →
The Top 10
Here’s what caught our attention this month around the internet:
- [Report] Check out Astro in the Jamstack chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac report. Read up on the state of the web!
- [Video] Find out what Astro's 5 best features released in 2024 were according to Chris Pennington / Coding in Public.
- [Article] Go from 5 seconds to 200 ms — Durable Caching for Astro Server Pages with Jason Lengstorf.
- [Article] Gaurav Sachdeva tells us Why I love AstroJS. Aww... we love you, too!
- [Tool] Show off your pics with
astro-pandabox, a lightweight Lightbox and gallery component for Astro from Saint Sin using content collections and image optimization. - [Video] Build a Full-Stack Application using Astro on Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare Pages with Kristian Freeman from Cloudflare Developers.
- [Article] Be the docs you want to see in the world. Let Warish walk you through A Complete Guide to Build a Documentation Site with Astro Starlight.
- [Tool] Display browser support for a given web feature on your Astro site with the Baseline Status component from Astro Embed. No client-side JavaScript!
- [Video] Watch Bryan Robinson build an Astro server island to fetch the latest Bluesky posts and cache them with Netlify's Durable Cache functionality.
- [Bonus: 🦋] Have you joined Bluesky? We've got you covered! This month saw articles like adding Bluesky comments to your Astro blog and several ready-to-use tools including a new Bluesky post content collections loader.
Use the official Astroverse Starter Pack to connect and keep up with Astro!
See more articles, videos, and tools →
Theme of the Month - Simple Portfolio
See more new themes and templates →
Astro in the Wild: Mr. Vast
See more new websites built with Astro →
Now using Astro: The Associated Press
See more new websites built with Astro →
That’s a wrap! 👋
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