What’s new in Astro - September 2024

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

Updates from Mission Control

🤿 Content Layer API deep dive
🛍 Astro Storefront
🌟 Swagger docs now built with Astro & Starlight

Releases

Astro 5.0 beta
Starlight 0.27, 0.28, and highlights of the last few major releases

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.

Community Awards August

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 @Fryuni for amazing contributions to all corners of the Astro ecosystem.
🚀 $250 to @ph1p for valuable contributions to Astro’s core packages.
🎈 $250 to @dragomano for fantastic contributions to Starlight translations.
🎊 $250 to @ArmandPhilippot for outstanding contributions to docs.
🧁 $250 to @Nin3lee for exceptional effort translating docs.

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

$100,000 Astro Ecosystem Fund Fall Update

Congratulations to the latest recipients of Astro’s ecosystem grants! Check out these projects that have made a huge impact:

🖌 @hippotastic ($10,000) for work on the Expressive Code advanced syntax highlighter that powers many Astro websites, and is built-in to Starlight by default!
👜 @martrapp ($5,000) for work on VTBOT (View Transitions Bag of Tricks) exploring the bleeding edge of view transitions in Astro and the larger web platform, with pre-built components you can use, examples, demos and more!

Read the full Ecosystem Fund fall upate for more details.

Showcase

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

📶 A growing list of content collections loaders on GitHub for you to try!
⚡ We had some SSRious fun with Docs on Demand, a demo site of server-rendered Starlight docs showcasing auth, personalized content, and more! (Which Houston did you pick??)
⏱ Shattering Headless WordPress Build Times with Astro’s Content Layer API
👅 Bytes.dev covered the Beta 5 release and Astro’s Hybrid Theory.
🌇 Find out how the community project StudioCMS is Thriving Beyond Astro Studio.
📚 See how Cloudflare manages their new Starlight docs and read a retrospective on using Astro for documentation sites: insights after 6 months.

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.

Full dev UI - The Astro UI library to build content sites with prebuilt components and blocks.
Bag of Tricks: <ElementCrossing /> - For smoother and smarter cross-document view transitions.
Astro dts builder - For generating TypeScript declaration files for Astro Integrations.
astro-minify-html - Minifies Astro’s generated HTML, including inline scripts & styles.
zastro-service-worker - An Astro integration that adds service worker functionality to your Astro project, powered by Workbox.
astro-turnstile - An Astro integration that allows you to add a turnstile to your Astro site.
GitHub repo loader - A content collections loader for GitHub repos.
Bag of Tricks: <TurnSignal /> - Create distinct animations for forward and backward navigation.
Astro Test Utils - Tooling for testing your own Astro Integrations and libraries.
Cut-Short - A simple tool for ending requests early with a custom response.

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 our Discord #showcase channel and featured on community calls this month.

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 our #showcase channel in our Discord!