What’s new in Astro - January 2025

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

Updates from Mission Control
Latest releases
Community updates
Astro in the news, migration stories, how-to articles, videos, and more!
Tips & Tools
Themes & Templates
Weird Wide Web
Starlight in the wild

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 5.2 - Tailwind 4, trailing slash relief, external redirects, experimental config module, and more!
Starlight 0.31 - Built-in print styles, better site search algorithm, syntax highlighting improvements, and more!

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.

Discord Updates

There’s a new dedicated #themes channel to discuss Astro theme design and development! Share your ideas and techniques for building flexible themes. Ask for opinions and advice from fellow theme designers. All things themes! 🎨

And don’t forget to check out this month’s new themes while you’re at it!

New Community-run Support Forum

Our volunteer Support Squad may be in Discord, but the Support Squid is swimming in the open waters of the web!

This is a brand new community initiative by some of our active Support Patrol members to help extend our support efforts beyond Discord and make questions and answers easier to find in web searches. We hope it’s another place you can connect with other astronauts as you build with Astro. 🦑

Astro Team News

We are pleased to welcome our newest Astro maintainer @ArmandPhilippot!

Merci et bienvenue, astronaut! 🫡

Find and share your own Astro Community Contributor Badge!

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

🌟 Read the story of building the best open source documentation experience by migrating the 4500 page Cloudflare developer docs to Starlight.
🔍 DatoCMS brings Episode 3 of their “Why we moved to Astro” saga: SEO.
🔥 Astro continues to shine in interest, retention, and positivity in the State of React:2024.
🆕 The New Stack covers experimental Astro sessions and more.
❤ See how Astro stole everyone’s heart in the Netlify 2024 Frameworks Year in Review
🍦 Learn how you can use Astro on its own to meet your SSR-first app needs with just Vanilla Astro, No Framework Needed.
👜 New guidance for 2025 from the Bag of Tricks to help you Make an Informed Choice: Decide whether to stick with the <ClientRouter /> or embrace browser-native cross-document view transitions. Just getting started? Go have some Fun With View Transitions!
🖼 Unpic v1.0 includes a new @unpic/astro image service and components, but also image components for almost all of Astro’s supported frontend frameworks and more (10 in total).

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

Migration Stories

How-to Articles

… and more!

Watch Party

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

Tips & Tools

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

@wix/astro - The Wix Astro integration provides session management for your Astro project.
Astro GitHub file loader - Load files stored in a Github Repository into your Astro Content Layer.
Astro Integration Template - Building an Astro integration? Just choose a template and get started!
astro-ghostcms-loader - Use your GhostCMS content with the Astro Content Layer.
@polar-sh/astro - Payments and Checkouts made simple with Astro.
Starlight Spell Checker - This plugin brings multilingual spell-checking, equality, readability, English usage, quotes checks, and much more to your Starlight projects.
astro-transition-event-polyfill - An integration that adds a polyfill for the astro:page-load event when view transitions are not used.
Astro server todo app - A simple Todo List App built with Astro and Better Auth.
astro-font v1.0 - Automatically optimize your Custom Fonts, Local Fonts, Fonts over any CDN and Google fonts for performance.
@inox-tools/server-islands - An integration that provides a set of utilities to work with Astro’s Server Islands.

Themes & Templates

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

Also check out new Starlight themes:

♦ Ion - A sleek, modern theme for Starlight.

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!

Party poll - Create your own poll! Built using PartyKit and Astro.
Jam with Music - A simple sequencer that lets you make music in your browser to share or jam with any instrument.
Tic Tac Toe - A live, multiplayer game built with websockets and Astro.

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! 👋

We hope you’re off to a great 2025! Let’s make this the year that we make the web a little more weird!

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