What's new in Astro - April 2025

By
Sarah Rainsberger

Some exciting news from around the Astro ecosystem this month, including:

Let’s dive right into it!

Updates from Mission Control

Latest releases

Minor releases introduce new features and improvements. Check out what’s new!

  • Astro 5.6 - first-class astro:env and experimental session support in Cloudflare, more control over prefetching, and more!
  • Astro 5.7 - stable Sessions and SVG components, a new Experimental Fonts API, and more!
  • Starlight 0.33 - more control over social icons, improved access to <head> content, and more!
  • Starlight 0.34 - built-in heading anchor links, Tailwind 4 support, CSS cascade layers, and more!

Astro Adopters

From Firebase Studio to Sharp to the Lua Language Server to Kleinanzeigen, some of the biggest names you know are using Astro!

Weird Wide Web

Some sites from the last month that show off what you can do with Astro that are quirky, innovative, inspiring, or just plain fun!

  • Hypertext TV - Daily programming for the handmade web. Airing now.
  • WebTUI is a modular CSS library that brings the beauty of Terminal UIs to the browser. Navigate their site using the provided keyboard commands!

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

We have a new Technical Steering Committee (TSC)!

Welcome core maintainers Emanuele Stoppa Florian Lefebvre and Matt Kane to the Astro TSC, joining current member Matthew Phillips , to guide Astro’s technical direction and ensure a healthy codebase for many years to come!

Read more about the 2025 TSC

Additionally, Matt has stepped into the role of framework team lead alongside Sarah Rainsberger , our current docs team lead!

And, we are also So Very Glad to welcome our newest Astro maintainer @stramel!

Open source feel-good Story

Last month’s “What’s New?” included a blog post by Angelika Cathor on the implications of Astro’s HTML streaming and detailed their current workaround in use.

In response, Astro core team member Luiz Ferraz not only identified an issue in a 3rd-party service and contributed a bug fix, but also created an Astro integration to allow you to disable Astro’s streaming featured below in this month’s Tips and Tools section.

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

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

Migration Stories

How-to Articles

Find these and all how-to articles from previous monthly blog posts at Astro Tips!

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Watch Party

Grab your popcorn and make a playlist of your faves! 🍿

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Astro ❤‘s your fave tech

Using a CMS, database, or tool to build? See how it’s done!

Live coding streams

Watch people build, experiment, and learn!

Tips & Tools

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

  • Astro Tanstack - Build a Single Page Application (SPA) with Astro, TanStack Router and Query.
  • cfetch - An Astro integration that provides a cacheable fetch function for Astro SSR.
  • Astro WordPress - Build WordPress themes using Astro.
  • Nova IDE Astro extension - Provides syntax highlighting and basic autocomplete for .astro files for Panic’s Nova IDE.
  • 🌟 Starlight Fullview Mode - A minimalist plugin that collapses Starlight’s sidebars and expands the main content to full width.
  • Inox Tools: cut short - An Astro integration that lets you stop processing a request instantly and send back a custom response, now with a disableStreaming option.
  • Typed Rest Routes - An Astro integration that allows for creating type-safe server endpoints.
  • 🌟 Starlight scroll to top - Add a scroll to top button to your documentation website.
  • Astro og - Astro dev toolbar app that previews your page on social platforms and shows its open graph data.
  • Astro Google tag manager - An integration for injecting Google Tag Manager snippets into Astro projects, supporting popular web analytics tools.

… and some built with Astro:

  • Starlight Changelog - a pretty version of Starlight’s own CHANGELOG.md, automatically updated with each new release. Bookmark it to keep up with Starlight’s changes! Built with Astro’s Starlog theme and the astro-loader-github-releases content loader
  • Tract Stack - A no-code build your own website funnel that transforms your online presence from a static brochure into a dynamic conversation that adapts to each reader, with a dashboard to understand your user interactions. Built with Astro and Turso.

Themes & Templates

Several new Astro themes were added to the Astro theme directory this month. Get a jump start on a fresh new project by starting with a theme!

And, Otterlord’s Catppuccin for Starlight has been adopted as an official port! Soothing pastel docs for everyone!

Showcase

Looking for even more inspiration? See all the community member websites submitted to the Astro showcase this month. Submit your site built with Astro!

Starlight in the wild

It’s always exciting to stumble across more docs built with Starlight. Here’s what our community noticed this month:

That’s a wrap! 👋

Thanks for another great month! We can’t wait to see what you build next month!

Want to be in this post next month? Share your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in the #showcase channel in our Discord and/or tag us on social media!