What’s new in Astro - July 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
Showcase
Starlight in the wild

Let’s dive right into it!

Updates from Mission Control

🚀 New guide to help you Build Astro with AI Tools
⚡ Astro will be at ViteConf 2025
📊 Astro is admired in the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Latest releases

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

Astro 5.11 - new Content Security Policy (CSP) features, the ability to opt out of HTML streaming when using the Node.js adapter, and more!
Astro 5.12 - TOML support for content loaders, experimental raw environment values, an improved Netlify adapter development experience, and more!
Starlight 0.35 - New ways to customize your docs, including icons in asides, attributes for autogenerated sidebar links, page slug processing, and more!

Astro Adopters

From Netlify to Microsoft to Matrix, 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!

Color Contrast Checker - A powerful color contrast checker that validates accessibility compliance against WCAG 2.2 standards. Check color contrast and generate design tokens from your color choices.
Glyph Editor - A minimal ASCII art editor, place characters like pixels in a grid 👾
Rig Designer - Rig Designer is the all-in-one camera rig builder and creator hub. Select from over 170,000 products to add to your camera rig. Publish and show off your completed rigs to the world!
PostNord i Kalendern - Keep track of Swedish postal deliveries directly in your calendar.
Title Thumb - Instant preview for YouTube titles and thumbnails. See how it looks on desktop, mobile, and TVs.
David Umoru’s Guestbook - Leave a message and get a travel stamp based on your country! Built with AstroDB.

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 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

Welcome to our newest Astro maintainer Adam Matthiesen! The crew just keeps getting larger, and we are happy to have you aboard!

Discord Hot Topics

July was a month of sites and sounds in the Astro Discord.

We had multiple photo gallery templates shared this month. Getting ready to showcase summer vacation pics? Try out one of these:

Astro Photoswipe by @scottaw66 (see the demo)
Astro Photo Grid by @evadecker (see the demo)

And you can now sign up for the upcoming beta of the first ever 100% Astro-built podcast app by @louisescher!

Did you know?

There is now a 3-day virtual Astro training course eligible for the French national training funding system, a first in France! The CPF (Compte Personnel de Formation) funds training for job seekers, among other things. So, in France you can now learn Astro with assistance from the French government!

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

💑 Alex Russel noticed that 11ty and Astro have won the hearts of frontend’s best minds when creating a collection of links and resources for folks getting into performance and platform-oriented web development.
💞 Read why Duende is supporting Astro (and Starlight) with their open source sponsorship.
🚀 Learn why Astro is the modern take on static site generation and should be at the top of your consideration list according to A0mineTV.
📈 Discover why Astro is especially recommended for businesses facing challenges in performance, SEO, and streamlining content management by Coosy. (Japanese)
💄 View the Astro changelog as a pretty website thanks to Felix Schneider.
🧩 Take a nerdy romp through a demo of the famous Tower of Hanoi puzzle packed with tools, tips, and tricks to level up your dev skills with the View Transitions API in Martin’s VT Bag of Tricks.
👷 Need a resource for someone new to building and deploying a site with a build process and even using the command line? Chris Coyer uses Astro for Frontend Master’s beginner-focused series.
🌱 The New Stack describes the rise of Astro and other HTML-first tools and asks, “HTML-First, Framework-Second: Is JavaScript Finally Growing Up?”

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!

… and more!

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 Sarah Rainsberger, HiDeoo, Chris Swithinbank working on Astro Docs and Starlight.
Talking before Deploying (TBD) with Emanuele Stoppa, Matt Kane, and other 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.

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 YouTube Loader - An integration that allows you to load YouTube videos using the YouTube Data API v3, and use the data in your Astro site. Includes experimental runtime YouTube video loading for live content collections.
Resend Newsletter Starter - Create your own newsletter form with Astro, Resend and React Email!
Astro SSR Table - An integration to create powerful, server-side rendered data tables. Includes helpers and components for server-side pagination, sorting, and full-text search.
Continuous Translation - A GitHub Action to automatically translate and maintain your Markdown documentation using AI with built-in support for Astro Starlight.
Blogue - A CLI tool for creating and managing Markdown blog posts with Astro integration and GitHub workflow automation.
Astro Leaflet - A native Astro component for leaflet, a JavaScript library for displaying mobile-friendly interactive maps.
Astro Headstart - Astro components and utilities for managing the head of a HTML document.
Astro HTML Helper - A CLI tool for transforming plain HTML into more idiomatic Astro syntax.
Astro Google Tag Manager - A plugin to integrate Google Tag Manager into your project, letting you manage marketing and analytics tags directly from your Astro website.
Astro Auto Alias - Automatically generates path aliases based on your project structure.
Astro i18next - i18next integration for Astro with dynamic namespace loading and TanStack Router support.
WorldMap Astro component - An interactive world map component for Astro with search functionality, configurable data views, and customizable modal content.
Astro Nanostores i18n - An Astro version of the NanoStore i18n JS library to make your web application translatable.
Astro LLMS text - An integration that generates a llms.txt based on your pages when you build your Astro project.
Zastro Web Sockets - Universal WebSocket support for Astro SSR Apps with pre-patched adapters.
Expressive Code Fullscreen - An Expressive Code plugin that adds a fullscreen viewing mode to your code blocks.
Astro Routify - An API router for Astro, powered by a Trie-based matcher.
Astrojs Mixpanel - A Mixpanel integration for Astro.js with minimal configuration required.
Astro m3e - A modern Astro UI Component library based on Material 3 Expressive design system.
Astro React i18next - Integrates i18next and react-i18next into your Astro website to provide robust i18n support for React components.
Astro WebAudioStream - Astro integration for iOS Safari-safe Web Audio streaming with instant playback, progressive loading and memory management.
Astro ETag - An Astro integration for generating ETag sidecar files for your build.
Astro Normalize Trailing Slash - A simple utility to normalize trailing slashes in URLs to match your Astro project’s trailingSlash.
Astro Varlock - An Astro integration for Varlock to manage your environment variables with type-safety and security.
Astro Posthog - An Astro Integration for PostHog, GDRP friendly tracking in your astro app / site.
BCMS Astro Components - A set of Astro components to use BCMS content.
Astro Obfuscator - An Astro integration that allows you to obfuscates JavaScript client files using javascript-obfuscator.
Astro Get Remote Image - An Astro integration that automatically downloads remote images from your CMS during the build process and updates HTML references to use local paths.
Astro Client Pragma - An Astro integration that auto-adds the proper client:* directive to every template by reading a "client:*"; pragma at the top of each framework component.
Astro Web Vitals - An Astro integration that enables tracking real-world website performance and storing the data in Astro DB.
🌟 Starlight Auto Drafts - Starlight plugin to tweak draft pages default behavior and automatically remove sidebar links to draft pages in production mode.

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:

The free interactive Pricing Builder from Lexington Themes. Build professional pricing tables and cards with an intuitive online builder, then export the the code to add the component to your Astro project!
A new Shopify Headless Starter with Astro + Svelte powered by the Shopify Storefront API.
Dev Logs - Start logging your day with a minimal template.

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!