The Astro Post - September 2025

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 5.14 - new routing tools, async Svelte rendering, React 19 actions support, and more!

Upgrade Astro today for all the latest goodies!

The Astro swag shop's summer sun is fading fast... last chance to snag items from this limited collection as we prepare to replace them with all new goodies next month!

Astro Ecosystem

September was a huge month for the Astro open source project! Catch up with our latest partnership announcements with Mux, Webflow, and Cloudflare.

Read more about why Cloudflare, Netlify and Webflow are joining forces to support Astro, Tanstack, and the open web in Cloudflare's announcement post and Netlify's blog post. Here’s to our shared journey of building a better web, together!

Community News

Welcome to our newest Astro maintainer, Louis Escher. Thank you for your contributions, and welcome aboard!

See more about what's happening in the Astro community →

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Survey] Take The State of JS Survey and share your experiences with Astro and other tools, libraries, and frameworks.
2. [Video] Watch Chris Pennington / Coding In Public show off React form hooks in Astro, now with native support for React 19's useActionState() in Astro Actions.
3. [Article] Learn why David Bryan chose Astro over WordPress for their new business venture and how Astro hit the sweet spot for a whole range of reasons.
4. [Tool] Astro Favi Link by gingerchew lets you add stylish favicons to your external links with ease.
5. [Article] Master production-ready Astro middleware with dependency injection, testing strategies, and caching for enterprise applications with Loren Stewart.
6. [Tool] trueberryless built a Git Diff Viewer with Astro to view the diff of a single file on a public GitHub repo since a specific date for easier project maintenance.
7. [Video] Find out why Astro is here to stick with 30 Minutes of Astro with Maintainer Elian Van Cutsem interviewed by Szymon Chmal for GitNation Heroes.
8. [Tool] Astro Takumi by vikas5914 allows you to generate Open Graph images for your Astro site using Takumi.
9. [Article] Discover how to use dynamic components in Astro by Lucky Media.
10. [Tool] Use the Astro-built app Z-Links to organize all your links into folders. Keep bookmarks, team resources, and projects neatly accessible.
11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] Webflow has chosen Astro as the web framework to power their upcoming AI code gen platform. Soon, you'll be able to generate production-grade Astro web apps with powerful interactive tools like dashboards, pricing calculators, and booking systems that can be deployed to Webflow Cloud with a single click. Learn more in the Webflow Conf 2025 recap and apply for early access today!

See more articles, guides, videos, and tools in our full blog post →

Theme of the Month - The Podium

See more new themes and templates →

Now using Astro: VG.no

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: RenderAI

See more innovative, quirky, fun websites built with Astro →

Cosmic Canvas: Askell

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

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

Want to be featured in next month’s newsletter? Post your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in our ⁠#showcase channel in our Discord!