What’s new in Astro - March 2025

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

Updates from Mission Control
Latest releases
Astro Adopters
Weird Wide Web
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

⚡ See core maintainer Matt Kane at ViteConf 2025
🎓 Learn Astro with Coding in Public
⭐ Astro reaches 50K stars on GitHub

Latest Releases

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

Astro 5.5 - better support for diagramming tools like Mermaid and D2, experimental sessions gains type safety, better Markdown compatibility, and more!

Astro Adopters

From Cloudflare to Ladybird, 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!

Utsubo - A multi-award winning technology-First Creative Studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences, interactive installations, and WebGPU.
Space Bingo - Multiplayer Galactic Bingo built with Astro and Socket.IO. Compete with friends or strangers across the galaxy in real-time multiplayer matches.
Radio Rock Hits - A web radio station, built with Astro using SSR and a persistent player component with React. News powered by GraphQL.
Cat Cafe Map - Discover cozy spots around the world where you can adopt, play, and hang out with furry companions.
MontFort - A stunning Astro site built with Three.js, GSAP, and Storyblok CMS.
Interior Scene - A Matterport-style virtual tours demo with progressive texture loading in Three.js and Astro. Bonus: it has a banana FPS mode.

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

⚡ Discover how Astro allows Alejo Stereo to build websites in a remote Colombian village, living on a tight budget, with painfully slow internet that drops every five minutes and power outages happening all the time.
🍀 Lucky Media shares how Astro has transformed their approach to web development.
💻 Learn why Thinkmill used Astro to design a browser-based prototype to conduct accessibility/inclusivity testing.
🤿 Take a deep dive and learn the code, animation logic, and creative process behind Stas Bondar’s portfolio (named GSAP site of the week and site of the month) built with Astro and featuring advanced web animations with GSAP, Three.js, and physics-based effects.

Today, we have a massive hands-on case study by @stabondar on his stunning portfolio!

Get an exclusive look at the techniques and code powering his site, from GSAP to Three.js, physics-based animations and so much more!

Don't miss this one—you're going to learn a lot! 🔥 🔗⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ivcRQq659C
— Codrops (@codrops) March 25, 2025

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

Migration Stories

How-to Articles

… and more!

Watch Party

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 this month.

Live coding streams

Watch people build, experiment, and learn!

Tips & Tools

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

react-router-astro - A starter template for creating a server-rendered SPA using React Router and Astro.
astro-rerun-island - An integration that reruns your persistent server islands on astro:after-swap to refresh your content without showing the user unnecessary loading screens.
astro-meta - Easily add meta tags to your Astro app.
astro-path-helpers - An Astro integration that generates type-safe path helper functions for your Astro routes.
astro-ai-robots-text - An Astro integration to disallow AI scrapers in robots.txt.
s3-compatible-loader - A content loader to turn an S3-compatible object storage into a CMS that works well with Obisidian’s Remotly Save.
astro-gemtext - An Astro integration that lets you use .gmi (Gemini protocol document format) files as pages in your Astro site.
astro-itchio - An Astro integration that automates your deployment to Itch.io.
Astro Clerk loader - Access a selection of Clerk Backend APIs by simply providing the method name.
Astro Plausible loader - Provides a Plausible content loader for Astro’s content layer. You can access the Stats API v2 to view historical and real-time stats of your website.
🌟 starlight-markdown-blocks - Extend Starlight’s Markdown asides syntax with custom (:::block) types.
🌟 starlight-toc-overview-customizer - Enhance Starlight’s table of contents with customizable overview title
reveal-animation-handler - A responsive text animation system for Astro that intelligently detects and respects natural line breaks. This utility provides dynamic, viewport-aware animations with multiple animation types and customizable options while maintaining responsive design across all devices.
astro-appwrite-demo - A demo of using Appwrite on Astro, allowing end-users to create an account and update their username on the account page.
astro-d1-magiclink - Magic link auth based on Lucia-auth, Astro Actions, and Cloudflare D1.
@inox-tools/content-utils - Utilities for your Content Collections, now providing Git information for any file-based content loader.

… and some built with Astro:

WorksForMe - Enter a time and a time zone(s) and get a shareable link so everyone around the world knows exactly when that meeting is!
Astro UI - A Bitshares UI built using Astro, React and Electron.

Themes & Templates

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

Also check out the Starlight community themes page with seven plug-and-play 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 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!