What’s new in Astro - August 2025

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

Updates from Mission Control
Latest releases
Astro Adopters
Weird Wide Web
Cosmic Canvas
Community updates
Reading List
Watch Party
Tips & Tools
Themes & Templates
SUPER Showcase - extended version!
Starlight in the wild

Let’s dive right into it!

Updates from Mission Control

🚀 Astro’s most popular integration passes 1 million monthly downloads
🧑‍💻 1 million installs of the Astro VSCode extension
👋 Summer merch will soon be disappearing from the Astro swag shop. Get it before it’s gone!

Latest releases

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

Astro 5.13 - experimental improvements to handling your environment variables, support for Chrome DevTools workspaces, and more!

Astro Adopters

From Travelodge to Renault, NixOS to Drizzle, some of the biggest names you know are using Astro!

See more companies using Astro in our site showcase, and explore Astro for corporate or enterprise use with one of our agency partners!

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!

Play a geography sorting game built with Astro! Test your knowledge as you drag and drop city names to put them in order from north to south.
Why look out the window when you can view the current sky at your approximate location, rendered as a CSS gradient? (source code)

Cosmic Canvas

Didn’t think you could do that with Astro? These stunning sites with spectacular visuals and smooth animations prove you can!

Community

Astro Team News

Heading to ViteConf in October? You’ll be able to meet speakers Matt Kane , Sarah Rainsberger , and other core members of the Astro team who will be attending!

Discord Hot Topics

There was quite the chatter this month about using Obsidian with Astro!

People shared multiple guides on how to use Obsidian as a CMS to write and manage your Astro content (with symlinks, with GitHub and submodules, and with symlinks and plugins).

This month we also shared a Starlight plugin to publish Obsidian vaults, a Starlight Obsidian theme, an Astro Obsidian content loader and a Spaceship Theme to publish your Obsidian vault to the web with Astro and TailwindCSS.

We even discovered some new video content:

And if Notion is more your thing, then check out Jason Lengstorf’s proof-of-concept using Notion as a CMS to power an Astro site.

Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy

little weekend tinkering project: I built a proof-of-concept of using @notion.com as a CMS for an @astro.build site (I built a custom loader). skipped the prior art and rolled my own for fun very rough, definitely not comprehensive, but I enjoyed thinking through the use case to get it wired up

github.com

GitHub - jlengstorf/astro-notion-as-a-cms: A proof-of-concept using Notion as a CMS to power an Astro site.

A proof-of-concept using Notion as a CMS to power an Astro site. - jlengstorf/astro-notion-as-a-cms

August 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM UTC

Or maybe the hottest take of all: GitHub as a CMS?

Did you know?

We recently updated our contributing page with a direct link to all open issues marked help wanted or good first issue across all Astro repos! Already a contributor? You can find and download the code for your very own Astro contributor badge!

Astro Contributors astro.badg.es

Find an Astro contributor and check out their awesome work!

The text “Find your contributor badge” over three brightly coloured stylized cards representing Astro contributor badges.

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

Discover why agency Digital Empr made the switch from WordPress to Astro + Sanity to build client sites and how it transformed their workflow.
Compare the best UI libraries for Astro with a detailed look at almost a dozen contenders!
Is it time for modern CSS to kill the SPA or to reject the false binary between static sites and SPAs? And maybe it’s so incredible what you can do with plain HTML and CSS, you no longer need JavaScript at all. Some heavy questions to ponder while many were on holidays!
Martin and his VT Bag of Tricks shares a round up of view transition fails and fixes: quirks, caveats, and little gremlins that can cancel your animation, plus what you can do about them. Applicable whether you use Astro’s client router or native view transitions in Astro directly!
Jason Lengstorf takes you through using CSS layers to override Astro component styles without !important hacks or other workarounds.

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

Migration Stories

Why I changed my tech stack - to include Astro, of course!
From Next.js to Astro: A Page Size Comparison - achieving a much smaller HTML and JS payload.
New portfolio site - from mockup to deployment.
Astro vs. Next.js: A Nuanced Choice - how and why they ultimately chose Astro.

How-to Articles

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

Watch Party

Be sure to follow Astro’s official YouTube channel for content from the team, including regular streams such as Talking and Doc’ing with Astro core Team Docs members and Talking before Deploying (TBD) with Astro core devs from the Framework Team.

Astro on demand

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

Astro ❤‘s your fave tech

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

Learn Astro

New to Astro? See the latest introductory videos around the web!

Meetups

Astro is popular around the globe! Discover what happened at meetups and conferences this month.

Play

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 Editor - Reads your Zod schemas and transforms frontmatter into smart forms.
🌟 Starlight changelogs - Display changelogs right alongside your project documentation.
🌟 Starlight contextual menu - Add a contextual menu to your Starlight documentation quick access to AI-optimized content.
🌟 Starlight GitHub alerts - Render GitHub alerts as Starlight asides.
🌟 Starlight plugin icons - Add icons to Astro Starlight: sidebar, codeblocks, filetree.
Astro Table of Contents - Automatically generates and includes a table of contents (TOC) for your web pages.
Astro Simple Feature Flags - A simple, type-safe feature flag integration for Astro, powered by the Content Layer API.
Astro Loader Obsidian - A content loader for Astro that lets you treat your Obsidian vault as a native content collection.
Astro LLMS Generator - Automatically discovers and processes all your Astro pages to generate optimized documentation files.
Varlock Astro integration - Helps you integrate varlock into an Astro project.
Astro Mithril - Enables server-side rendering and client-side hydration for your Mithril components.
Astro Selfie - Generate page screenshots to show as Open Graph images.
Astro Remove Comments - optimizes your static site by reducing file size and removing development-related comments
Inline - Brings beasties (a library to inline your app’s critical CSS and lazy-load the rest) to your Astro project.
Astro CNAME - Generate a CNAME file using the configured site value.
Astro Render Component - Plug-and-play Astro component renderer for fast, zero-config testing in any DOM-like JS/TS environment.
Astro Dev Only - Removes files from your final static production build. Useful for drafts or other dev-only pages.
Authproto - Authenticate your site visitors using ATproto. For Bluesky and beyond.
Astro Lit - Enables server-side rendering and client-side hydration for your Lit custom elements.
Astro AI LLMS TXT - Creates an AI-optimized summary of your HTML pages.
Astro Dynamic Header - A dynamic, responsive header component for Astro projects that can switch between floating and fullscreen styles with multi-level dropdown navigation support.
Astro Static Headers - Captures headers and redirects during prerender and writes platform-specific config for Cloudflare, Netlify and Vercel.
Astro Tailwind 4 auto reference - Automatically inject tailwind @reference directives in Astro component style blocks.
Astrojs Hyperapp - Static/server rendered Hyperapp components with Astro.
Astro ESLint setup - Set up ESLint automatically to lint Astro files with TypeScript syntax.
Astro Startup Code - Run code alongside a NodeJS deployment.

… and some built with Astro!

Lili’s LLM Chat App - A simple & secure LLM chat app.
Astro Tract Stack - Build and grow adaptive websites that are fast, beautiful, SEO-ready, and accessible.
SQLAI - A text to SQL generator.

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 also check out:

OPN - Want a quick, minimal presence on the web? OPN is your open source bio page that lives on your GitHub. Built with Astro!

Showcase

Summer is the perfect time to catch up on all the sites we realized never made it in to the showcase! Get ready to scroll as we submitted more than our fair share of community member websites to the Astro showcase this month. Submit your own sites 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!