What's new in Astro - July 2024

Some exciting news from around the Astro ecosystem this month. Let’s dive in!

Updates from Mission Control

• 🏝️ Server Islands (experimental)
• 🤝 Netlify Partnership
• 🔐 Clerk Official SDK for Astro
• 🎟️ Astro at ViteConf

Releases

• Astro 4.12
• Starlight 0.25

Community

Astro wouldn’t be what it is without its community. From Discord support, to documentation improvements, to translations, to code contributions, Astro welcomes it all.

Astro Team News

See several members of the Astro Team speaking at ViteConf 2024, a free online event for the web development community. Get your personalized ticket and show your Astro support!

Community Awards June

These are some of the people who went above and beyond last month to make all our lives just a little (or a lot!) better:

• 🌟 $500 to @Lukas for contributions to Astro development, issues, and support.
• 🚀 $250 to @Grahf for being active on Discord offering community support.
• 🎈 $250 to @jsparkdev for tirelessly keeping up with docs translations.
• 🎊 $250 to @ArmandPhilippot for being an enthusiastic contributor to docs and translations.

Check them out and learn more about the Astro Community Awards on our community website.

Showcase

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

• ⏳ Read about how Astro’s server islands deliver progressive rendering for your sites from Rob Stanford, with one-click clone and deploy to Netlify to test drive an example project.
• 👀 You don’t need to know German to understand “Astro Geht Brrrr!” means Astro goes fast! Take the fun, meme-heavy journey through Das schnellste Framework der Welt, even if it means turning on captions or auto translation.
• 🔥 Hit the 9 minute mark of the Front-end Fire podcast to hear Jack Harrington’s early take on server islands.

Because you can never get tired of Astro, here’s even more community content!

• 📄 Why we use Astro by @rapp
• 📄 Astro Actions With Vanilla JavaScript and Strapi 5 by @paul-bratslavsky
• 📄 Creating a portfolio website using Astro and Atomic Server by @AtomicDataDocs
• 📄 Launching Your Astro Powered Blog on a Journey to Couchbase by @bengreenberg
• 📄 SSR Astro with Headless Craft CMS by @olets
• 📄 Astro vs Next.js by @Caisy
• 📄 Why I ditched WordPress for Astro by @vbartalis
• 📄 Astroのrssフィードに記事の本文を追加する by @neputa
• 📄 How to do ISR and advanced caching with Astro by @ascorbic
• 📄 Exploring actions and request rewriting in Astro by @ivaylogerchev
• 📄 How to use Astro actions, server islands and env to show what you’re currently listening on Spotify by @Guilhermo
• 📄 Introducing AstroAspore: using .NET Aspire with Astro SSR (Nodejs/Express)

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Tips & Tools

The latest community-built utilities and integrations to help you build with Astro.

• Astro Studio CMS - A dedicated CMS for Astro Studio built by the Astro community by @AdamMatthiesen, @Jumper, and @dreyfus
• Advanced Astro Starter kit - Includes a pre-configured multi-language setup, and CodeStitch components by @buckybuck
• Notion-based configurable static website generator - Your own Notion website with Astro by @nerdymomocat
• Astro Infisical - An Astro integration for Infisical for secret management by @AdamMatthiesen
• Bun adapter for Astro - Allows Astro to deploy your SSR site to Bun targets by @NeuroDev
• Bag of Tricks - Inspection Chamber - See your view transitions like never before: examine all details, reveal, debug, and optimize! by @martrapp
• Spaceship CMS - Coming soon, waiting list open by @blazingbowser
• Star Warp - Add a quick “jump to first search result” URL to any Astro site using Pagefind by @Fryuni
• @inox-tools/runtime-logger - Allows you to access Astro’s built-in logger from the runtime of a project by @Fryuni
• astro-toolkit - A collection of Astro tools, components, and utilities to streamline your development process by @blackpepper
• astro-typed-links - Automatically get typed links to your pages by @florian-levebre
• astro-email-password-2fa - Built with Astro, SQLite, and Lucia v4 by @pilcrowOnPaper
• astro-wordpress-docker - An Astro-based headless WordPress setup by @RyanHarrigan

Themes & Templates

Several new Astro themes were added to the Astro theme directory this month. Try them out!

Also check out:

• Freedom Stack by @cameronapak
• ToolDB by @ProtocolUI
• Print-friendly portfolio CV by @smilesharks

Websites

Sites of the month:

• Visit MusicDev, an electronic music album about web development and programming. Built live on stream over four sessions.
• See live, updating trends and stats about GitHub repositories at gitcharts. GitHub, visualized.
• Make your next destination Astro’s own Server Islands Demo to learn more about this new, experimental feature.

Looking for some inspiration? See all the community member websites submitted to our Discord #showcase channel and featured on community calls this month.

Starlight in the wild

Want to be on this list next month? Post your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in our #showcase channel in our Discord!