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
- Astro in the news, migration stories, how-to articles, and more!
- Watch Party
- Tips & Tools
- Themes & Templates
- Showcase
- 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 5.9 - experimental Content Security Policy (CSP) support, rendering Markdown in content loaders, and more!
- Astro 5.10 - responsive images, experimental live content collections, and more!
Astro Adopters
From Unilever to Cash App, the US government to OpenAI, 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!
- Ascii Moon - View & cycle through The Moon’s phases day to day - rendered in ASCII art.
- Give Back Guide - A platform that connects travellers with projects and experiences that have a positive impact on people, places, and the planet. Their goal is to make it easy for travellers to find and support local projects in their destinations that align with their values.
- type - An open source, zen, markdown-friendly editor built with Astro. Just start typing!
- Deep Time Navigator - Visualize world events through deep time, with log scaling, so you can see how the present (a day, a week, a year) smoothly fades into the very deepest past.
- TIDS:LOGG - Keep track of the time you spend with Astro! (And learn a little Swedish at the same time?) A Swedish time-tracking site built with Supabase.
- Passport Photo Wiz - Create compliant passport photos in seconds, right from your browser.






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
- Sarah Rainsberger was a guest on the Sustain OSS podcast for Maintainer Month 2025, talking about her journey from Scrimba student to core maintainer, wrangling community, using “evil devices” and low-tech tools like Chromebooks and Android tablets for coding, and of course, open source documentation!
Astro Courses
We know it’s not easy to keep up with Astro! This month, we added a new Astro Courses page to docs so we can feature some new, or newly updated courses:
- Learn Astro with Chris Pennington (Coding in Public)
- Intro to Astro with James Q Quick on Scrimba
- New Intro to Astro in Spanish from Manz.dev
- Astro Beginner Bites by Code with Petipois
And catch the replay of our Learning Astro panel to see some of your favorite Astro educators about what it’s like to learn and teach Astro!
Content
Here’s what caught our attention this month:
- 💎 When Irina at Evil Martians asked Bolt to build a website for the San Francisco Ruby Conference, of course, it chose Astro!
- 🔌 Starlight Plugins by Example is a collection of personal notes and examples from core Astro and Starlight maintainer HiDeoo with everything you need to understand and build Starlight plugins!
- 🧭 See what happened when Cassidy Williams built for a physical scavenger hunt with Astro, Tally, and Netlify for the promise of free, fancy food!
- 🏋 Learn Why Astro is Your Go-To Framework for Content-Heavy Websites with Chris From Coding In Public.
- 🤿 Kenji took a dive into the internal implementation of Astro’s Content Collections to see how Markdown is rendered. (Japanese)
- 🥇 Find out why Astro was the perfect tool to build the Bramble website.
- 🛍 Dwane / lifelongdev takes you through the new Astro swag shop and gives a run down of Solstice Festival events.
Because you can never get tired of Astro, here’s even more community content!
Migration Stories
- Migrating my blog from Jekyll to Astro
- The Evolution of My Personal Website: A Journey Through Technologies
- Hallo Astro - Tschüss Wordpress
How-to Articles
- Generating open graph images in Astro
- How to Build Secure SSR Authentication with Supabase, Astro, and Cloudflare Turnstile
- Integrating the UnJS ipx Image Proxy as an Astro Middleware
- How to Protect Auth Forms with Cloudflare, Supabase SSR, and Astro Actions
- How to install and set up HextaUI in your Astro project
- Building faster content-driven sites with Astro
- Composing micro-frontends with Astro’s Server Islands
- Build a fully customizable bun server for Astro
- Modify slot children in Astro
- How to create an interactive testimonial with Astrojs, Tailwind CSS and JavaScript
- How to create a horizontal progress indicator for your Starlight site
Find these and all how-to articles from previous monthly blog posts at Astro Tips!
… and more!
- Astro Overall (6 months and 2-websites deep into using Astro)
- Top 5 Next.js alternatives for React developers
- Optimizing images from Contentful in Astro (So Editors Don’t Have To)
- Cache OpenAI Embeddings with SQLite for Low-Cost Astro Builds
- Better together: Developing web apps with Astro and Alpine
- On building Astro themes for multi-brand websites
- Building a website using Astro and React (for a job interview)
- You’re overthinking web components
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 Summer Solstice Fest
Catch the replays from the hottest event of the summer!
Astro on demand
Grab your popcorn and make a playlist of your faves! 🍿
Astro ❤‘s your fave tech
Using a CMS, database, or tool to build? See how it’s done!
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. 🛠
- Back Link - A component that lets you flip the direction of the view transition animation when using Astro’s client router.
- Astro Validate Env - A environment variable validation integration for Astro that gives you control over when/where to validate environment variables and works in all contexts.
- Astro Medium loader - An Astro loader that fetches and parses Medium RSS feeds by username. Supports canonical links, optional caching, and flexible storage strategies.
- Astro content loader - Load
.astro
files with the Astro Content Layer API, just as you would other formats (e.g. Markdown, MDX). - unDocs - A documentation framework built with Astro where you can build your own docs and component playground where you control the layout, components, and design.
- Stripe Astro loader - Fetch data from the Stripe API and use it in Astro collections.
- Astro Payload local loader - Load and cache data from a Payload CMS instance during your Astro build, using the local API.
- Astro Markdown prerender - An Astro integration that automatically sets
route.prerender
based on frontmatter properties in your Markdown files. - Astro Loader Hashnode - A powerful content loader for integrating Hashnode blog posts into your Astro website using the Content Layer API.
- Astro TOC generator - A table of contents generator for Astro.js that works specifically with Sanity CMS blog content.
- Astro Swiper - Astro component for Swiper, dedicated to slider / carousel / photo swiper / slide.
- Astro llms.txt - An Astro integration to generate AI‑friendly documentation files.
- Astro terminal themes - Convert terminal theme configurations (Ghostty, Warp, iTerm2, etc.) into Tailwind CSS themes for your Astro website.
- Astro Mermaid - An Astro integration for rendering Mermaid diagrams with automatic theme switching and client-side rendering.
- Astro SEO plugin - A zero-config SEO plugin for Astro.
- Astro Strapi loader - An Astro integration that enables easy data loading from Strapi Content API.
… and some built with Astro:
- Is it really foss? - Where Projects are Evaluated to see if they’re as free and open source as advertised.
- What’s the time? - A modern time converter helping global citizens work, meet, and plan across time zones.
- Online Calculator - A simple online calculator.
- Callculation - A complete toolkit for free online calculators, converters, generators, and AI-powered tools.
- CSS
clamp()
Generator - Create fluid font sizes & layouts with precision.
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!
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Blackhole - Minimal Blog Template by Portfolios
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Milo by oxygenna-themes
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Astro Shopify Sanity by Soufiane
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Astro Themes All-Access Pass by Getastrothemes
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NeonMint by Fernando Lopez
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Storyteller by Hasin Hayder
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Astro Persona - Portfolio & Blog by Bakate
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HyperDrive by WP Infusion
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Devpro - Portfolio Template for Developer by Portfolios
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Volks-Typo by Jonathan Rhyne
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maucariapacom-church-starter by Anton Toni Agung
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Astro-Flexoki by Amit K
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DesignPhotographyPortfolio by pysunday
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OpenLInks by E10Y
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LUON - Agency Website Template by Ricoui
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Capture - Portfolio Template for Photographer by Portfolios
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Minimal Blog by Lennart
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The Starter by Cosmic Themes
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Craftpixel - Portfolio for Graphic Designer by Portfolios
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Minimal Bento-like Portfolio by Ladvace
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!
Callculation: Free Online Calculators, Converters & Tools Kryptonum Software House – Online Business Partner Restoration of historic architecture | Lidenskap Online Calculator Green-Got - Le vrai pouvoir c'est votre argent. Unreal Brains Anil S | Full-Stack Developer SmartGamer - Find the Best Gaming Deals Rendair | Renders made easy. André Valério - Guitarist | Composer | Educator Han Lin | Research Engineer | Bridging Science and Engineering Church Name - A Welcoming Christian Community Kalwabed Rizki - Software engineer Krapela معرفی سفارشگیر نکسیم | وب اپلیکیشن نکسیم FlinCode | Digital Craftsman Fomr: Free modern form builder Agence Web - Développement, Design & Conseil - Hexium GHB Clinic London | Global Healthcare And Beauty Ltd PrimeBits develop and maintain complex software projects Umuzi Digital - Entreprise d'Ingénierie Créative Product Bible Play Hosting | Minecraft Servers, 100% Free, Forever Time Zone Converter, Meeting Planner & World Clock | What's The Time lik.ai Naturanal - dedicated to nature and sustainable living EdibleVeranda - sustainable living through edible gardening Multilingual Copywriter Offering SEO & Content Marketing Viajante Experiente Portcyou - Avoid port conflicts, code with confidence Купить радиаторы Tubog Non-Stick Baking Mats for Perfect Results Every Time - Bredominant Threads Viewer - View Threads without Account VERDE — Digital Design & Development CSS Clamp Generator by nViewsWEB Free Online Calculator & Unit Converter | CalculatorBit ShevaFood Neeraj Singh - Cybersecurity Engineer & Software Testing Professional Take control of the cloud with HomeDock OS Is it really foss? iamrobin Retirement Plans for Dentists Cash App Brand Guidelines Laguntza fisioterapia Pixels Perfect Design Strands Today - Hints and Answer for today's NYT Strands game Kimagin Made By Bramble - Creative Web Design & Development Station 48 Cobblemon | A Cobblemon Server for Developers and Friends! Games | My Final Fantasy VII collection poe.ninja ZachHandley Web Design Services Manila & Quezon City | Lance Flores Web Developer Villa de Mazamet | France’s Leading Luxury B&B Thinh's Corner Han Lin | Research Engineer | Bridging Science and Engineering Custom Software, IT Consulting & Cybersecurity | Makok Home | LEVI.LAND Junseong Park IT-решения для монетизации сайтов под ключ | Квант Tonari - AI Habit Coach Yorukot - Student & Full-Stack Developer
Starlight in the wild
It’s always exciting to stumble across more docs built with Starlight. Here’s what our community noticed this month:
varlock openGrid Project: Lotus EHR Wiki macOS Security Compliance Project Retrofit 🛠️ kit documentation OpenAI Agents SDK DXOS Documentation Graft - data sync to the edge Muffet, the fast link checker Logchef HTMLHint Eidos Docs opencode
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!
Previously…

May 2025 - Michelin + ApostropheCMS case study, new Astro course from James Q Quick, and more!

April 2025 - April Launch Week, Agency Partner Program, 2 million monthly downloads, and more!