What’s new in Astro - November 2024

Some exciting news from around the Astro ecosystem this month. Let’s dive in!

Updates from Mission Control

🦋 Astro joins Bluesky
⚡ Vite 6 is out, and you know what that means…
🚀 Keep your eyes on the skies for an upcoming Astro launch!

Latest Releases

Astro 5.0 beta-12
Astro 4.16.16
Starlight 0.29.2

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 are pleased to welcome our newest Astro maintainer @jsparkdev! Did you know Junseong has submitted over 1000 pull requests to the Astro repos?! 🤯

Welcome aboard, astronaut! 🫡

Community Awards October

These are some of the people who went above and beyond last month to make all our lives just a little (or a lot!) better:

🌟 $500 to @apatel369 for amazing contributions to Astro’s core packages and docs.
🚀 $250 to @casungo for valuable contributions to Astro’s docs.
🎈 $250 to @trueberryless for fantastic contributions to Starlight.
🎊 $250 to @ArmandPhilippot for outstanding contributions to docs and translations.

Check them out and learn more about the Astro Community Awards on our community website.

Showcase

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

📊 See how Astro ranked in the Jamstack chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac report.
🗓 The first ever Advent of Open Source starts December 1, with three tracks for different levels of experience contributing to open-source projects. Something for everyone, and their site is built with Starlight! 🌟
🦋 New Bluesky-themed animations on the ViewTransitions Bag Of Tricks are perfect for bringing Bluesky to your Astro blog, including:
- adding Bluesky comments to your Astro blog
- using a customizable Bluesky comments web component for comments
- embedding a Bluesky post
- adding a Bluesky post content collections loader

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

Tips & Tools

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

astro-pandabox - a lightweight Lightbox and gallery component for Astro
Astro Embed: Baseline Status component - a component that displays browser support for a given web feature according to the Baseline project
Astsro Embed: Bluesky post - embed a Bluesky post on your Astro site
astro-youtube - a component to embed YouTube videos in your Astro site
Inox Tools: Astro 5 / Vite 6 support - all your favorite Inox Tools are ready for the latest version of Astro
astro-typed-ids - get typed ids for your Content Layer entries, matching Astro 4 behavior
Astro Bluesky post loader - load and parse Bluesky posts, and use the data in your Astro site
bluesky-comments-tag- a lightweight, customizable web component to use Bluesky for your website comments
starlight-contributor-list - display a list of all contributors to your GitHub project
starlight-sidebar-topics-dropdown - a Starlight plugin to add a drop down navigation to your sidebar
starlight-cooler-credit - Adds a Houston-themed credit to Starlight or Astro

… and some built with Astro:

Simple Image Compressor - Upload an image, set your target file size, and download the compressed version.
1 checkbox per day - the world’s simplest to-do app
Astro Linky - your Astro-powered URL Shortener & QR code generator
Tract Stack - a no-code website builder and content marketing platform

Themes & Templates

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

Websites

Looking for some 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:

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!