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's results in The State of Frontend 2024

Notable Releases

• Astro 5.0 beta has seen several releases this month: we're up to astro@5.0.0-beta.6! See the v5 beta upgrade guide to try this early preview that brings stable Content Layer API, server islands, type-safe environment variables, and more!
• Of course, there's still more coming on the stable branch: Astro 4.16 launched with an option for concurrent builds, Shiki language aliases, bug fixes, and more!

Community Updates

• We awarded over $1,000 of our OSS sponsorship funds to standout community contributors who went above and beyond this month: @jsparkdev, @markjaquith, @dreyfus, @HunterBertoson and @viniciusdeliz.

See all current and past winners on our Community site →

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month around the internet:

1. [Report] Check out how Astro placed among frameworks in The State of Front End 2024. Thank you to everyone who responded!
2. [Video] Take an in-depth look at Astro 5's Server Islands with Jack Herrington and see how they make it easy to stream slow loading components to the client.
3. [Article] See how to Build an Astro blog with Deno 2 on the Deno blog.
4. [Tool] Astro Cloudinary SDK - High-performance image and video delivery and uploading at scale in Astro powered by Cloudinary.
5. [Article] Follow BlackSwift's journey evaluating options for their documentation before finally choosing... Starlight – Faites briller votre documentation
6. [Tool] Astro NPM Loader by gingerchew can load information about NPM packages into a content collection.
7. [Video] Have a friend who doesn't yet know that Astro 5 has it All? They can check out Astro 5 in less than 4 minutes from Awesome!
8. [Article] Building a blog based on GitHub Discussions? Matt Brailsford shares how to use their GitHub Discussions Blog Loader for Astro.
9. [Article] Discover The Joy of Astro along with Darko Bozhinovski.
10. [Video] Watch the ViteConf 2024 playlist with talks by 43 speakers from around the Vite ecosystem, including four Astro core maintainers.
11. [Bonus: Migrating from WordPress!] Need to move a WordPress site to Astro? We've got you covered! This month saw articles like Astro vs. WordPress: Rendering Patterns of the Modern Web, new content loader tools such as DeWP to use your existing WordPress data in Astro projects, and videos such as Introduccion Headless WordPress + Astro JS.

See more articles, videos, and tools →

Theme of the Month - AntfuStyle

See more new themes and templates →

Astro in the Wild: Nic Chan

See more new websites built with Astro →

Now using Astro: Proton

See more new websites built with Astro →

That’s a wrap! 👋

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