What’s new in Astro - June 2025

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:

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

How-to Articles

Find these and all how-to articles from previous monthly blog posts at Astro Tips!

… and more!

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.

Play

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!

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 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!