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 7.3 - run multiple preview servers at once, a runtime logger for custom image services and cache providers, and a finalize() helper for Cloudflare custom worker entrypoints.
• Starlight 0.42 - performance and accessibility improvements, less JavaScript, and more JavaScript, all in one release!

Upgrade Astro regularly for all the latest goodies!

Community News

Astro Team News

Thanks to our Agency Partner Seibert for hosting the Astro Germany meetup!

Watch the talks by Astro maintainers Reuben, Florian, Matt, and last but not least, Louis, who also organized this event.

Both Vue Fes Japan and ViteConf are coming up in October, and some of your favorite Astro maintainers will be speaking!

Never miss an Astro event by subscribing to the Astro Luma Calendar.

Partner Pulse

Find out what's new with our official partners and sponsors:

• Cloudways published a guide to deploying Astro with SSR and Server Islands.
• is*hosting shared a guide to deploying Astro (Static + SSR) on a VPS, along with an offer to the Astro community for $20 off for new users at checkout with the code ASTROONVPS.

Thanks to all of our official partners, sponsors, and individual contributors! Support Astro through out Open Collective to or consider partnering with us!

(And, see why we need your help to support the future of Astro).

Shout-outs

Think we don't notice you? Think again! This month, we'd like to give some 🌮 to:

• @marcos for offering helpful and patient support in the Astro Discord. Thank you for contributing to Astro's community!
• @jackhandford for adding support for the Oxc-based React Compiler to the @astrojs/react integration. Thank you for improving Astro!

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

The Top 10

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

1. [Article] Afnizar Nur Ghifari describes how and why they combined Astro and Next.js routing on the same domain.

2. [Tool] astro-if provides declarative conditional rendering components for Astro (If / Then / Else / When / Unless / Switch / Case). Shamelessly plagiarised from react-if, because @chez14 hates ternaries.

3. [Video] Learn how to build and launch a fully functional Astro blog in under 20 minutes, then connect it directly to Obsidian for a fast, local-first writing workflow.

4. [Tool] astro-image-zoom by antoniohg brings you Medium-style image zoom for Astro: accessible, animated from the page, with swipeable galleries.

5. [Article] See how Jeff Huleatt uses an agent skill to convert handwriting to Astro blog posts.

6. [Tool] @clearfelt-slide/core by @andrei-ionut-nita is an Astro-based slide-deck editor that lets you author, edit, and present straight from the same app.

7. [Article] Marcus Chen compares the 187KB vs 12KB JS Gap (and more) in Astro vs Next.js vs Nuxt.

8. [Tool] starlight-file-explorer by Hideoo lets you explore and document files and folders in your Starlight site with an interactive file explorer.

9. [Video] Learn what the hard part is when exporting from Wordpress and why Astro migrations blow up from Wunderlandmedia.

10. [Article] Phil Nash explains how to build a contact form with Astro and Resend.

11. [Bonus: 🧑‍🚀] Read the case study of how Evil Martians moved from Gatsby to Astro in nine days without rewriting a single React component in a fast and affordable migration.

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

Now using Astro: The United States government

See more Astro adopters →

Weird Wide Web: Hadis Portfolio

Hadis, Visual & Product Designer

See more innovative, quirky, inspiring, empowering, or just plain fun websites built with Astro →

Cosmic Canvas: byotone.com

See more stunning and creative sites built with Astro →

Theme of the Month: TVfolio

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
• 🦣 @[email protected] on Mastodon
• 🐦 @astrodotbuild on X
• 💼 withastro on LinkedIn

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• ⭐ to the site showcase
• 🎨 to the theme catalogue
• 📦 with the proper keyword in your package.json
• 💬 on social media tagging the Astro account
• ... and of course, in our Discord #showcase channel!