What’s new in Astro - September 2026

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
Site Showcase
Starlight in the wild

Let’s dive right into it!

Updates from Mission Control

🇩🇪 Astro Together Germany
👾 Evil Martians migration to Astro case study

Latest releases

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

Astro 7.3 - run multiple preview servers at once, a runtime logger for custom image services and cache providers, and a finalize() helper for Cloudflare custom worker entrypoints.
Starlight 0.42 - performance and accessibility improvements, less JavaScript, and more JavaScript, all in one release!

Astro Adopters

From Mozilla to Akamai to the United States government, some of the biggest names you know from around the globe 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, empowering, or just plain fun!

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 Team News

Thanks to our Agency Partner Seibert for hosting the Astro Germany meetup!

Watch the talks by Astro maintainers Reuben Tier, Florian Lefebvre, Matt Kane, and last but not least, Louis Escher who deserves a special shout out for organizing this event!

Both Vue Fes Japan and ViteConf are coming up in October, and some of your favorite Astro maintainers will be speaking!

Never miss an Astro event by subscribing to the Astro Luma Calendar.

Around the ecosystem

Partner Pulse

Find out what’s new with our official partners and sponsors:

Cloudways published a guide to deploying Astro with SSR and Server Islands.
is*hosting shared a guide to deploying Astro (Static + SSR) on a VPS, along with an offer to the Astro community for $20 off for new users at checkout with the code ASTROONVPS.

Thanks to all of our official partners, sponsors, and individual contributors! Want to contribute to the open source project yourself? Visit the Astro Open Collective page or consider partnering with us!

(And, see why we need your help to support the future of Astro).

Shout-outs

Think we don’t notice you? Think again! This month, we’d like to give some 🌮 to:

@marcos for offering helpful and patient support in the Astro Discord. Thank you for contributing to Astro’s community!
@jackhandford for adding support for the Oxc-based React Compiler to the @astrojs/react integration. Thank you for improving Astro!

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

Afnizar Nur Ghifari describes how and why they combined Astro and Next.js routing on the same domain.
See how Jeff Huleatt uses an agent skill to convert handwriting to Astro blog posts.
The Finsweet Spot podcast discusses Why are Agencies using Astro?
Marcus Chen compares the 187KB vs 12KB JS Gap (and more) in Astro vs Next.js vs Nuxt.
What happens when a major Astro upgrade doesn’t just work? Let Stefan Stankovic walk you through the exploration in Whose bug is it anyway?
PRs not welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors by Richard MacManus describes Astro’s auto-triage system

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

Migration Stories

How-to Articles

Watch Party

Be sure to follow Astro’s official YouTube channel for content from the team!

Astro on demand

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

Tips & Tools

See some of the latest community-built utilities and integrations to help you build with Astro. 🛠

@astroscope/react: React for Astro islands, tuned for the server.
@clearfelt-slide/core: An Astro-based slide-deck editor. Author, edit, and present straight from the same app.
@deltaq.dev/mines: A minimal Astro docs integration.
@dmthepm/commune: Maintain a personal wiki from Markdown notes with authoring tools, a shared link graph, and portable Astro publishing.
@igorskyflyer/astro-saferesource: An Astro integration that adds CSP-compliant inline scripts and styles to your website.
@qymera/effects: Free, tiny, native-first motion primitives for Astro, driven entirely by data-q-* attributes.
@sudodevstudio/astro-ai: Development-only Build with AI tooling for Astro projects.
@tcitry/astro-book: A customizable static reading theme for Astro, inspired by Hugo Book.
@typed/astro: Astro integration for Typed HTML templates and hydrated islands.
astro-cards: Generate Open Graph images from Astro components, at build time or on demand.
astro-feedback: Lightweight Astro integration for collecting design/dev feedback on pages, separated by viewport. Dev and staging only.
astro-feedback-board: Anonymous, moderated feedback for Astro sites: a feedback button, inline question cards and a public board, backed by a Cloudflare Worker.
astro-flag: Add a responsive country flag in Astro, as an inlined SVG.
astro-iconify-component: Inline SVG icons for Astro. Fully typed, accessible by default, Tailwind-friendly.
astro-if: Declarative conditional rendering components for Astro (If / Then / Else / When / Unless / Switch / Case). Shamelessly plagiarised from react-if, for those who hate ternaries.
astro-image-zoom: Medium-style image zoom for Astro: accessible, animated from the page, with swipeable galleries.
astro-pkg-stats: Astro component and helpers that show npm and Packagist (Composer/Laravel) download statistics for your packages.
astro-refs: Sphinx-style named refs for Astro: declare anchors anywhere, link by name, stay valid when content moves
astro-tweet-card: Astro component to render tweet cards.
astro-xitter: Embed Xitter Post in Your Astro site.
daisy-astro: Astro components for every daisyUI 5 component, where each daisyUI variant is a typed prop and every native HTML attribute is forwarded.
remark-myanmar-reading-time: Accurate reading time calculator for Myanmar (Burmese) script and mixed-language content in Astro, Next.js, and Remark.

SEO/AEO

brixon-seo: SEO and GEO validation for Astro builds. Audits rendered HTML, native Astro redirects, sitemaps, robots access and structured data; includes configuration instructions for AI coding agents.

CMS/text editors

emdash-plugin-linguadash: Translate EmDash content and SEO fields with DeepL, OpenAI or Cloudflare AI, and see which entries are missing, outdated or need review.
@plinto/astro: Plinto is an admin UI for Astro MDX sites, bundled into the deployed site itself: git-backed content, a visual block editor, and surgical AI translations driven by vector clocks.
astro-dev-edit: In-browser visual content editing for the Astro dev server — click text or images in the rendered page, writes straight to source. Dev-only.

Markdown, Text, and more

astro-better-details: Expandable details/disclosure component for Astro.
astro-better-tables: RST-style list-table and grid-table components for Astro.
astro-hidden-prompt: Invisible clipboard-copyable text for Astro MDX — guide LLMs when students paste assignment requirements.

Content loaders

astro-textile: Textile integration for Astro. Provides a content loader that renders .textile files for Astro content collections.

@caracode/pins: Astro dev-toolbar app for pinning notes onto page elements in local dev, stored as JSON for Claude Code to act on.
@opacedev/astro-ai-content-checker: Free AI content checker and free AI content detector for Astro Dev Toolbar, with on-device section evidence, passage highlights, reports and model-free build checks.

Starlight

i-cant-believe-its-not-vitepress: A Starlight theme that looks and lays out like VitePress: sidebar, content and table of contents kept together in one centred column.
starlight-group-pages: Starlight plugin to give your sidebar groups their own pages.
starlight-file-explorer: Explore and document files and folders in your Starlight site with an interactive file explorer.

Astro integrations by and for other tools

@casoon/astro-castwright: Astro integration for castwright — <TerminalDemo /> and automatic Vite plugin registration.
@ciphera-net/pulse-astro: Add Pulse Analytics — privacy-first web analytics — to an Astro site with one integration. No cookies, no personal data, under 3 KB.
@lilac-wysiwyg/astro: Astro adapter for Lilac WYSIWYG editor - a client mount helper and an Astro integration
@micrajs/astro: Astro integration for Micra.js — per-island, per-component lazy hydration for HTML-first components.
@quantajs/astro: Astro integration for QuantaJS: one store shared by React, Vue and Svelte islands, a container per request, and server state that reaches the islands.
astro-ai-chatbot: Add the Asyntai AI chat assistant to your Astro site. It answers visitor questions from your own content, in 80+ languages.
astro-surreal: Run a bundled Surreal script once for each rendered instance of an Astro component.
astro-deploy-stack: Deploy-stack integration for Astro. Instantly generate zero-lock-in AWS ECS Fargate infrastructure for your Astro website.

Themes & Templates

Several Astro themes were added to the Astro theme catalogue this month. Get a jump start on a fresh new project by starting with a theme!

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!

Want your site to be included? Submit it to the Astro Showcase Site.

Starlight in the wild

It’s always exciting to stumble across more docs built with Starlight. Here’s what our community noticed this month:

Spot someone using Starlight for their docs? We want to know about it! Submit it to the Astro Showcase Site.

That’s a wrap! 👋

Thanks for spending another month with us!