What’s new in Astro - February 2024

Leap into Astro news with a bonus February day!

Updates from Mission Control

We have a new channel on Discord #events, where you can share events happening online or in your community, post when you’re going live on a stream to get viewers, and more.
We discussed creating an ecosystem-ci similar to Vite and Volar for better communication about breaking changes in Astro updates with integration and theme authors.
We expanded the Astroverse to daily.dev: updates, releases, showcase items, and more. Another way to get your Astro news and interact with the community. Join our squad!

Releases

Save the date: Astro Studio launches March 12, and we have a whole week of festivities planned!

While you wait, catch up on Astro and Starlight core releases:

Astro 4.3, 4.4
Starlight 0.18, 0.19, 0.20

Docs

This month Docs added two new guide pages to docs on adding authentication and e-commerce options to your Astro project! These are two popular features that people ask about, and we wanted to provide some basic guidance to get you started.

Our weekly Discord call “Talking and Doc’ing” is a chance for you to watch Team Docs work in public, jump in a shared Codespace or Gitpod Workspace, and contribute to the docs live, together. This month’s topics included:

Part two of an epic PR to make docs URL paths consistent with the locations in the sidebar settings that included:
- 📅 2 weeks.
- 🕓 4 hours of live streaming.
- 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 10 people in the same shared codebase at once
- 🗃 678 files changed.
- ✅ ALL CHECKS PASSED.
Figuring out what a Starlight <Steps /> component might look like. Just an ordered list? We think not!
Exploring building in Astro’s native i18n routing features to the default Starlight template.

Community

Welcome to our new Maintainers

Fryuni, Oliver, and liruifengv have joined Astro as Maintainers!

Welcome! 🎉

Community Awards January

🌟 $500 to Florian for leading and supporting our integration builders, and contributing to all aspects of the Astro project and community.
🍾 $250 to Oliver for shipping features in Astro core and providing helpful community support.
🎈 $250 to Kevin for consistent contributions to Starlight development
🎊 $250 to Happydev for tackling several Astro code issues, fixes and improvements.
🎉 $250 to Glad777 for exceptional community involvement in support and docs

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

Showcase

Content

Because you can never get tired of watching and reading Astro Content.

📄 Migrating from Gatsby to Astro by @binalgebraical
📄 How I use Notion and Astro to publish my monthly learnings by @azan_n
📄 Using Weaviate’s generative search with Astro for brainstorming by @larryhudson
📄 Add diagrams to Starlight using D2 by @hideoo
📄 Dynamic components - Is it worth it? by @caiomarcellus
📄 Fetching the latest YouTube videos in an Astro Component
📺 Deploy an Astro static site to DigitalOcean by @zacksiri
🎙️ Simple Stack Streaming - Discussed on Front-end Fire
📄 Adding Related Articles with Astro Content Collections
📺 You Don’t know How to SSR by @ema
📄 Seamles SPA Transitions Using the New View Transitions
📄 Why I choose Astro for web app development by Oren Farhi
📄 My Experience with Astro by Ryan Furrur
📺 Quoi de neuf dans Astro
📄 This Site Is Now Built with Astro by @aqandrew
📺 Get Started with Directus and Astro
📄 Using Algolia with Astro Starlight by @bholmesdev
🎙️ Podrocket with Eddy Vinckby @eddyvinck
📄 Introduction to Astro and Wordpress by @bngmnn
📄 Building a documentation site using Astro Starlight by @palmiak
📄 A talk on Islands Architecture by @winterjoey
📄 How to create animated images with TailwindCSS and Astro by @mike_andreuzza
📄 Hands-On Experience: eCommerce Store with Astro?

Tips & Tools

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

Unpic by @ascorbic.
florian-lefebvre/satori-astro by @florian_lefebvre
astro-clerk-auth by @elefcodes
Adammatthiesen/astro-commercejs by @adamm2047
inline-mod-astro by @fryuni
JulianCataldo/og-images-generator by @juliancataldo
BryceRussell/astro-pages by @bryceguy
ktym4a/astro-page-insight by @ktym4a
kindspells/astro-sri-scp by @andreu
Tiny toolbar app to show Tailwind Breakpoints
frankstallone/astro-cube-boilerplate by @frank_stallone
KindSpells/astro-shield by @castarco
natemoo-re/astro-remote by @nmoodev
Generate e-mails with Astro by @luckydye

Themes & Templates

Several new Astro themes were added & released this month. Try them out!

Illustration based template by @manulthanura
Astroplate by @tffarhad
Quantum by @lastchaos.
event-edge.gerome.dev by @gerome.dev
ScrewFast by @soslan
MinimalStudio, theme built with Astro, TailwindCSS and Alpine by @mike_andreuzza
Resume website with TinaCMS by @alpeshnakrani

Websites

All the community member websites submitted to our Discord #showcase channel and featured on community calls this month.

Starlight in the wild

Take a peek at the new Starlight sites that we discovered this month.

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!