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 5.16 - experimental SVG optimization, interactive CLI improvements, a collection of DX enhancements, and more!
Starlight 0.37 - opt in to Starlight Markdown processing in non-docs collections, better whitespace handling in tables and other content, style improvements, and more!
Upgrade Astro today for all the latest goodies!
There's still time to order from our swag shop community collection for the Astro fans in your life! Or, send your loved ones a link to your own wishlist items!
Astro Ecosystem
There are about to be a whole lot more Astro sites spotted out in the wild...
This month, Stainless launched an Astro-powered docs platform which is now available in early access. The Stainless Docs platform generates a Starlight site with a clean, modern default theme, a UI component library that anticipates common documentation use cases, and a statically rendered site with minimal JavaScript by default. You'll also have direct access to every line of code in the project GitHub repo.
In September, Webflow announced that they had chosen Astro as the web framework to power their upcoming AI code gen platform. Webflow App Gen is now in public beta so you can try it for yourself today! Start building production-grade Astro web apps like dashboards and booking systems from a single prompt, and enjoy one-click deployment to Webflow Cloud.
Community News
Catch core Astro maintainer Reuben Tier speaking about Astro's island architecture December 1 at React Advanced London. It's not too late to sign up to see this virtual talk!
Join Astro maintainer Kenji Tomita and the new Astro Japan Community for their first in-person meetup on February 4, 2026.
Don't want to be the last one to know when things are happening? Subscribe to the new Astro Luma event calendar to track conferences, meetups, and other events around the Astroverse, and be sure to let Sarah know if you are hosting a meetup or giving a talk so we can help publicize your event, too!
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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[Report] Astro’s docs framework Starlight is fastest in its class according to real-world user data at HTTPArchive.
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[Video] Learn about Making Meaningful Contributions to Open Source Projects with core maintainer Sarah Rainsberger at ViteConf2025.
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[Article] Ever wanted to blog from your phone? See what happened when Jonathan Yeong went looking for a mobile-friendly headless CMS for Astro.
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[Tool] Use Astro Snapshot by twocaretcat to generate screenshots of your pages automatically at build time. Perfect for creating social images, content previews, dynamic icons, and more!
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[Article] Let Reynaldi from Corsfix describe how they manage multiple Astro projects while keeping them under the same domain deployment.
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[Tool] Astro Web Vitals by casoon is a lightweight Web Vitals monitoring component for Astro with debug overlay and analytics support.
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[Video] Watch Chris Pennington / Coding In Public give an overview of Astro's server rendering options — especially helpful if you're coming to Astro from a different framework!
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[Tool] Use the Astro Trakt.tv content loader by LekoArts to pull your TV watching history and stats into an Astro project.
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[Article] Tired of typing the same frontmatter fields over and over again for your blog posts? Discover how VS Code Snippets can improve your workflow when working with Astro content collections from Felix Schneider.
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[Tool] Test your Astro components in real browsers with Vitest Browser Astro by ascorbic.
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[Bonus: 🧑🚀] From build times reduced from 30 minutes to 3 minutes, to 100 core web vitals and 90% less JS, to 30% SEO improvement, read these and more Astro migration success stories reported this month!
See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →
Now using Astro: Adobe MAX Japan 2025
Weird Wide Web: AgeMDB
See more innovative, quirky, fun websites built with Astro →
Cosmic Canvas: alphanull
See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →
Theme of the Month - Snook
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
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