What’s new in Astro - February 2025

Some exciting news from around the Astro ecosystem this month, including:

Updates from Mission Control
Latest releases
Astro Adopters
Weird Wide Web
Community updates
Astro in the news, migration stories, how-to articles, videos, and more!
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 5.3 - faster page rendering, easier setup for experimental sessions, and more!
Astro 5.4 - remote image optimization in Markdown, enhanced security for dev and preview servers, and more!
Starlight 0.32 - New route data middleware, i18n API access for plugins, and more!

Astro Adopters

From Michelin to NordVPN to Scout Motors, 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!

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 core maintainer @Fryuni! 💛

Find and share your own Astro Community Contributor Badge!

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

⚡ Find out what happened when David Eastman from The New Stack test-drives building an Astro Blog on Bolt, an in-browser AI web development agent from StackBlitz.
🎂 Reflect on A Year of Headless Harmony: ApostropheCMS + Astro with Alex Gilbert.
💬 Explore Astro Islands By building a chat app with Raymond F using the Stream API.
🌟 Catch up on the latest episode of Fun with View Transitions: “Twinkling” - Adding View Transitions to your Starlight site from the VT Bag of Tricks.

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

Migration Stories

How-to Articles

… and more!

En 2021, conocí @astrodotbuild, después de seguir la pista a proyectos anteriores como Snowpack, Skypack (PikaDev!), etc...💖

Desde entonces... Pertenezco a la secta de Astro 🚀

🔊👇 pic.twitter.com/sLgJlbbJlz
— Manz 🇮🇨⚡👾 (@Manz) February 3, 2025

Watch Party

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

Tips & Tools

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

Starwind UI - A set of powerful, accessible components for your Astro projects styled with Tailwind CSS v4.
Zorn Player - A video player for Astro with several customizable features.
Accessible Astro - Everything you need to build accessible, performant, and beautiful websites with Astro.
astro-obsidian-starlight-notes-template - A Starlight starter template that uses your Obsidian notes for content.
astro-teleport - A lightweight Astro component for rendering content in a different part of the DOM using a Web Component.
astro-typesafe-routes - An Astro integration for typesafe URL generation and routing.
storyblock-loader - A community-built loader for Astro Content Layer that fetches content from Storyblok’s API.
astro-qiita-loader - A Qiita loader for Astro, allowing you to use Qiita posts as content collections.
Bit - A CLI tool for scaffolding Astro + PocketBase projects.
static-only-collections - Specify content collections that will only be used on static pages to reduce code built server-side and improve page performance.
Starlight View Transitions Plugin - Add cross-document, browser-native view transitions to your Starlight site with one line in your Astro config.

… and some built with Astro:

StudioCMS - A dedicated CMS for Astro DB, with a fresh beta 8 release.
Tract Stack - A publishing platform and no-code Astro website builder.
GitHub Activity - View the recent GitHub activity for any user in a beautiful list.
Mayo App - A self-hostable, web-based audio streaming app.

Themes & Templates

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

Also check out the brand new Starlight community themes page with six custom Starlight themes ready to use in any existing Starlight project!

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 choo- choo- choosing Astro to be your Valentine! 🚂 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!