Astro 6.4 is out this week with some big news for build times.

There's also a zero-config Astro CMS, a dev toolbar plugin for batching UI notes straight into your coding agent, and dynamic OG images without the Satori boilerplate.

Astro 6.4 released

A new pluggable Markdown processor API lets you swap out the unified pipeline entirely, with a new Rust-based processor already shaving over a minute off site builds. The Cloudflare adapter gains a new helper for experimental advanced routing too.

A Smarter Way to Give Your Agent Astro UI Context

A dev toolbar plugin that bridges your Astro UI and your coding agent. Click elements to attach notes with source locations, build up annotations across multiple routes, and copy the whole lot as Markdown straight into your agent.

Zero — The AI CMS for Astro

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Building a Multilingual Slide System Inside Astro with Reveal.js

A deep dive into how one developer keeps all their talks living alongside their blog, using Reveal.js inside Astro as a first-class content type with full i18n, SEO, and a unified catalog.

Generate Dynamic OG Images in Astro with Orshot

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That’s a wrap for this week! I hope you found it useful.

Got something the Astronauts should see? A tutorial, a tool, or something you've built — send it over to nathan@astroweekly.dev or DM me on X.

Happy building!

Nathan 👋

900KB of JavaScript. Minutes-long build times. A broken Gatsby blog. This week's Astronauts had problems, and Astro solved them.

Whether you're migrating, building from scratch, or just trying to ship less JavaScript, this week's issue has something for you. Let's get into it.

I Built a Globally Distributed Blog Platform for ~$1/Month

Arjun Nambiar walks through building a full-featured, edge-first blog on Astro, Cloudflare, and Turso — React islands, Keystatic, Pagefind, and Giscus included — for almost nothing per month.

My Next.js Site Shipped 900KB of JavaScript. Here's What Replaced It

Fed up with relentless dependency maintenance and mysteriously bad Core Web Vitals on a mostly-static site, Michael Xymitoulias rewrote their Next.js portfolio in Astro, cutting client-side JavaScript by over 91%.

How to rewrite your entire blogging platform in one prompt

Michael Crook used OpenAI Codex's new goals feature to migrate a broken Gatsby blog to Astro in a single session, cutting page size by 40% and build times from minutes to seconds.

I Built My Own WordPress with Astro and CloudCannon

A full walkthrough on pairing Astro's zero-JS-by-default architecture with CloudCannon's visual CMS to deliver a WordPress-style editing experience without the WordPress overhead.

Astro 6 + Specific.dev: the stack ano.chat ships on

Ano co-founder Ruben Flam details why a marketing site is not a React app, and how Astro 6 paired with Specific.dev's merge-is-the-deploy workflow keeps theirs fast without the framework overhead.

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Got a migration story or build worth sharing? I want to read about it. Drop it in at nathan@astroweekly.dev or find me on X.

Now go cut some kilobytes!

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The agentic web isn't coming, it's already here.

This week's issue is packed with practical ways to make sure your Astro sites are ready for it, covering fundamentals worth knowing and full site builds driven by AI agents.

What agent-ready looks like for a static blog

Joost de Valk scored 25/100 on Cloudflare's agent-readiness checker and got to work. A practical, end-to-end guide to closing the gaps on an Astro blog, covering markdown content negotiation, llms.txt, and a server-side MCP endpoint.

Rebuilding dailybot.com for the agentic era

Dailybot's CTO on migrating 700+ pages across three languages from Webflow to Astro in six weeks, and how non-engineers are now shipping directly to the codebase via agent-assisted PRs.

astro-slop: the Astro integration for the agentic web

A new Astro integration that takes a bottom-up approach to LLM-readiness: per-page .md siblings, auto-generated llms.txt, link rel="alternate" injection, and HTTP content negotiation for markdown-preferring clients.

AI Killed The CMS: How I Ditched Mine for Code and Markdown

Sid Bharath rebuilt his WordPress blog as an Astro + MDX site with Claude Code, going from a PageSpeed score of 67 to a perfect 100 while completely rethinking how he writes and publishes content along the way.

Building AI-Ready Sites with Astro & AEO

A practical tutorial on building an Astro site optimised for Answer Engine Optimization, covering a live build of a custom llms.txt and the schema work that helps LLMs trust your content.

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Is your Astro site ready for agents?

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Fly safe out there, Astronauts!

Nathan 👋

Minor releases for both Astro and Starlight this week, plus a project from an Astro core maintainer that could land you your next role.

Let’s take a look!

Experimental advanced routing in Astro 6.3

Astro 6.3 introduces experimental advanced routing, giving you full control over your request pipeline with first-class support for frameworks like Hono, alongside redirect handling for remote images and a security-minded change to SVG processing.

Astro job board launched

Astro core maintainer Florian Lefebvre has launched a dedicated job board for the Astro ecosystem, connecting developers with roles at startups and enterprise teams alike.

Starlight 0.39 improves flexible sidebar autogeneration

Starlight 0.39 brings more flexible sidebar autogeneration, better multilingual SEO, and some neat modern CSS fixes for nested lists and layout shift.

Build a dark mode landing page in Astro

Coding in Public walk through building a dark mode landing page in Astro from scratch, covering layout planning, responsive component design, and reusable utility patterns in a live coding session.

What I learned from my second Astro-Jekyll migration

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That’s all for this week!

Got something the community should know about? Drop it in my inbox nathan@astroweekly.dev or DM me on X.

Have a great week building!

Nathan 👋

Plenty to dig into this week. A new minor release, the first alpha of Astro v7, and a new SEO package for recovering Next.js developers.

Astro 6.2 released

Astro 6.2 lands with an experimental custom logger featuring built-in JSON output, a redesigned SVG optimizer API, and a new font file URL helper for using Astro-managed fonts with tools like Satori at build time.

Astro v7 alpha

The first Astro 7 alpha ships two significant changes — an upgrade to Vite 8, and the Rust-based compiler graduating from experimental to the default, bringing notably faster build times and dev server startup out of the box.

Astrobook: a minimal Storybook alternative

A lightweight UI component playground built on Astro that supports React, Vue, Svelte, and native Astro components, using a Storybook-compatible CSF v3 story format and embeddable directly into an existing Astro project.

Migrating from Astro 5 to Astro 6: a real-world breakdown

A detailed walkthrough of a real Astro 5 to 6 upgrade, covering distinct errors including Tailwind v4, content collections migration, Cloudflare adapter v13's breaking changes, and where an AI coding agent confidently led astray.

Bringing Next.js metadata to Astro

Lucky Media's open-source package ports the Next.js App Router metadata API to Astro, with per-page overrides, site-wide defaults, deep-merged OpenGraph and Twitter card support, and title templates.

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Busy week to be an Astronaut!

If you spot something worth including next time, let me know at nathan@astroweekly.dev or DM me on X.

More next Sunday.

Nathan 👋

From ditching Astro abstractions to scanning your site for AI agent readiness, this week's issue asks some useful questions about what your Astro site should — and shouldn't — be doing.

On to the good stuff.

Is Your Astro Site Agent Ready?

A new Cloudflare tool that scans any URL and scores it across five categories of AI agent readiness, checking everything from robots.txt and Markdown negotiation to MCP server cards, OAuth discovery, and agentic commerce protocols. Worth running against your Astro site.

Dropping Astro's ClientRouter for Web Standards

Joost de Valk replaced Astro’s ClientRouter on his blog with native cross-document view transitions and the Speculation Rules API, sparked by a Safari Reader Mode scroll-jump bug.

How to Build a Headless WordPress Frontend with Astro SSR on Cloudflare Pages

An end-to-end guide to running WordPress as a headless CMS with an Astro SSR frontend on Cloudflare Pages, covering must-use plugins, draft previews, and a few gotchas worth knowing before you deploy.

Flashless Dark Mode with Astro and CSS Variables

A concise walkthrough of implementing dark mode in Astro without the dreaded FOUC, using an inline blocking script in the head, plus handling the ClientRouter lifecycle to prevent the class dropping on navigation.

How I Added Bluesky Likes to My Astro Blog

Luciano Mammino wired up Bluesky like counts and avatars to his Astro blog using the bluesky-likes web component package, requiring just one schema field, an Astro component, and zero API keys or server-side code.

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That’s a wrap for #128!

Got a link, project, or tutorial you think belongs here? Send it over to nathan@astroweekly.dev or DM me on X.

Until next Sunday!

Nathan 👋

A fresh batch of five links for you check out!

The founder of the de facto WordPress SEO plugin has put together one of the most thorough Astro SEO guides we've seen, plus a brand-new backend handoff tool and a few smaller but satisfying reads rounding things out.

Astro SEO: The Definitive Guide

Yoast SEO founder Joost de Valk walks through his entire Astro SEO stack, covering everything from metadata and structured data to agent discovery. Comprehensive enough to hand directly to an AI coding agent.

Astro 6 Starter Project with Strapi CMS

A video walkthrough of setting up a headless CMS-powered Astro 6 site using Strapi, with a full starter project you can run locally and build on. Plus a look at using a Claude Code skill to extend it with new pages automatically.

Frontmatter Solo: Astro to Twig and PHP

Frontmatter Solo converts a constrained Astro project into a Twig or plain PHP render pack at build time, producing a documented variable contract ready to hand off to your backend team.

3 UX details that make a difference on an Astro blog

Three small but high-impact UX improvements one developer made to their Astro blog, each solving a friction point that's easy to overlook.

A WordPress-like More tag in Astro

Migrating from WordPress to Astro and finding “more” delimiters scattered through your Markdown? This post explains why the obvious approaches fall short and walks through a clean solution.

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That’s all we have time for this week.

Got something worth sharing with the Astro community? Let me know at nathan@astroweekly.dev or hit me up on X.

Happy building, Astronauts!

Nathan 👋

Parity pricing with Polar, a native desktop CMS app, and a tool that keeps your docs screenshots fresh automatically, we’ve got a nice mix inside.

Grab a coffee.

Morrisson — Edit Astro Content Without the Complexity

Lexington Themes has launched Morrisson, a lightweight native desktop app for macOS and Windows that lets non-technical teammates edit Astro content collections through a visual UI, no frontmatter syntax required.

Astro's New Fonts API

Coding in Public walks through Astro's new Font API, showing how build-time font downloads solve the privacy, layout shift, and type safety problems that come with pulling fonts directly from Google Fonts.

Build your own Parity Pricing for SaaS with Polar and Astro

A step-by-step walkthrough for adding purchasing-power parity discounts to your Astro SaaS using Polar, covering country detection via Vercel geolocation, server-side offer logic, and a lightweight banner component.

Astro: To the Moon and Back

A detailed tour of using Astro as a full-stack application framework in 2026, covering server mode, middleware, Drizzle ORM, Better Auth, Bun's native APIs, and why the "content-site framework" label sells Astro well short.

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That’s another week in the Astro universe.

If you've shipped something worth sharing, a tutorial, a tool, a theme, or just a clever trick, send it over to nathan@astroweekly.dev or DM me on X.

Catch you next Sunday!

Nathan 👋

Happy Easter, Astronauts!

We've got a few good eggs in the basket this week, including a huge announcement from Cloudflare that’s got the whole community talking.

Let’s find out what all the fuss is about.

Cloudflare's EmDash Is a WordPress Successor Built on Astro

Cloudflare have unveiled EmDash, an open-source TypeScript CMS powered by Astro that aims to tackle WordPress's biggest weaknesses. Plugin security is solved via sandboxed isolates, hosting is fully serverless, and themes are standard Astro projects.

Testing Live Content Collections in Astro v6

Raymond Camden explores Astro v6's new live content collections by building a TMDB movie browser, showing how the feature lets you mix on-demand API data with Astro's familiar content collection patterns.

Tasteful Navbar Animations with View Transitions

A short Coding in Public tutorial showing how to build a sliding navbar indicator using Astro's View Transitions, with a focus on keeping the effect subtle by animating only the active state element rather than the whole page.

Astro: The Framework That Didn't Judge Our Legacy Code

A detailed account of how Experian's team migrated their 20-year-old website to Astro, from proof-of-concept evaluation through team workshops and deployment pipeline integration, with honest notes on the CORS gotcha that forced a same-day rollback.

Why a Berlin Agency Ditched WordPress for Astro

Creatives Berlin walks through their recent switch from WordPress to Astro, covering the real-world wins: sub-second load times, simpler hosting, and getting back to actually building things instead of maintaining a CMS.

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That’s all the links eggs we have for this week!

If you enjoyed this issue, sharing it with your network is always appreciated and the best way to help Astro Weekly to continue to grow.

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Now, let’s get back to eating chocolate.

Nathan 🧑‍🚀

A busy week in the ecosystem, with a fresh release from the core team and something for designers, AI workflows, and Figma plugin builders too.

Astro 6.1 released

Astro 6.1 adds global Sharp codec defaults for consistent image encoding across your whole project, plus advanced SmartyPants configuration, i18n fallback routes for integrations, and smoother mobile view transitions.

Astro Together LDN

The Astro core team is hosting an in-person event in London to showcase new and upcoming features, co-hosted with Cloudflare. Venue is still TBA, but registration is open now and spots are filling up fast.

An Agent Skill for Writing Astro Code

A practical look at why AI coding agents generate outdated Astro patterns and how one developer built a custom agent skill with 20+ guardrails and ready-made templates to keep Claude Code and Codex on the right track.

Astrotypes: Ready-Made Font Pairings for Astro

A curated library of 143 font pairings built for Astro's Fonts API, installable with a single command. Browse by style or mood, and the pairing drops straight into your project with Tailwind CSS variables included.

Astro x Figma Plugin Starter

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That's all for this week!

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Peace out, Astro nerds.

Nathan 🧑‍🚀

In today’s newsletter we have a first look at a brand new project from Astro co-founder Fred K. Schott, a deep-dive into CloudCannon’s new Astro component starter, and a practical dev toolbar app from the community.

Let’s take a look!

Flue: The Sandbox Agent Framework

A new agentic framework from Astro co-founder Fred K. Schott that connects AI agents to CI workflows via TypeScript, handling code review, issue triage, and security scanning from a secure sandbox container.

CloudCannon's Astro Component Starter

Chris Pennington walks through CloudCannon's new Astro Component Starter, covering the three-file component system, page composition via front matter, theming, and how to scope exactly what clients can edit.

Migrating to Astro 6: Was It Worth the Wait?

A detailed migration story covering the upgrade path from Astro 5 to 6, the two breaking changes that needed fixing, and benchmarks showing the experimental Rust compiler starting the dev server four times faster.

Astro Image Inspector

A dev toolbar integration that highlights images on hover during local development, surfacing rendered size, natural size, loading mode, and warnings for upscaled or oversized assets.

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That's a wrap on another week in the Astroverse!

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As always, your work could be featured in the next Astro Weekly! Send in your submissions to nathan@astroweekly.dev.

Until next time!

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Astro 6.0 dropped this week, and we're going all in!

This issue is dedicated entirely to the latest release, from the release itself to day-one platform support, a new CMS partnership, and a first-look video to walk you through it all. Grab a coffee.

Astro 6.0 released

Astro 6.0 brings a built-in Fonts API, stable Live Content Collections and Content Security Policy, a redesigned dev server with true production parity, and more.

Astro 6: First Look

Chris Pennington walks through every major feature in Astro 6.0, separating what's stable from what's experimental and what's clearly laying groundwork for Astro 7.0.

CloudCannon joins Astro as an official CMS partner

The Git-based CMS is now sponsoring Astro, with plans for deeper technical collaboration and an official integration guide. Plus, an Astro Challenge running March 12–19 with a $1,500 prize pool!

Introducing the Astro Component Starter

CloudCannon's new starter ships with 30+ Astro components, a design token system, and built-in visual editing configuration, giving teams a complete, production-ready foundation for marketing sites without the integration work.

Astro 6.0 just works on Netlify

Netlify shipped day-one support for Astro 6.0, with one important migration note: import.meta.env values are now inlined at build time, so runtime secrets should move to process.env before upgrading.

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That's a wrap on another week in the Astroverse!

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Astro 6.0 is out in the wild now, so go upgrade!

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A recent report shows Astro adoption numbers are climbing fast, and with Astro 6.0 also teased this week, now feels like a great moment to be in the ecosystem.

Let's take a look at what’s been happening!

Astro Adoption Continues to Climb

A recent HTTP Archive report shows Astro usage is up 11.8% on mobile and 14.6% on desktop, and it's backed by Astro's own telemetry too, with npm downloads up 40%.

SEO for Astro Sites — What Actually Matters

Florian Riquelme walks through a complete SEO setup for Astro: sitemap, Open Graph, JSON-LD, RSS, and canonical URLs, all wired from two dependencies and a single layout file.

We Rebuilt Our Marketing Site with Astro, Claude Code, and Cloudflare

StackOne ditched Webflow for an Astro + Cloudflare Pages stack built almost entirely with Claude Code, ending up with a mobile Lighthouse score that jumped from 42 to 92.

Inspect and Validate JSON-LD Directly in Your Dev Toolbar

An Astro dev toolbar plugin that detects every JSON-LD structured data block on the current page, displays the parsed data in a readable format, and validates it against common Schema.org types.

Ship a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service with Your Astro Site

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One hundred and twenty issues in, and the community keeps delivering.

This week we've got a creative approach to content management, a practical image hosting setup, and a new privacy-first integration worth bookmarking.

Let's get into it.

Building a Real-Time Headless CMS with Astro SSR and GitHub

Tired of redeploying just to fix a typo? Anil's approach uses a separate GitHub repo as a content vault and Octokit to pull posts dynamically via SSR, giving you version-controlled content with no database required.

Privacy-First Cookie Consent for Astro

A zero-dependency Astro integration that adds a GDPR/UK GDPR-compliant cookie consent banner with consent categories, a preferences modal, and full CSS theming.

Hosting Images on Astro with Cloudflare R2

Emma's blog hit nearly 1,200 photos and build times became unsustainable. This post walks through offloading images to Cloudflare R2 object storage to keep builds fast.

How to Set Up Astro and Payload CMS

A deep-dive tutorial building an Astro + Payload CMS monorepo from scratch, skipping Next.js entirely and using Payload's Local API to query data directly from Astro components with zero network overhead.

My First Steps as an Astronaut

After four years on a stagnant Gatsby setup with 15-minute build times, Alexander made the jump to Astro and covers what won him over.

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Greetings, Astronauts!

From component tooling to performance experiments and creative portfolios, there's a lot to dig into this week. Let's get into it!

Storybook Astro

Community-built Storybook framework for Astro. If you've wanted a proper component workshop for your Astro project, this is the one to watch.

I Threw Thousands of Files at Astro and You Won't Believe What Happened Next

Raymond Camden loaded all 6,742 posts from his blog into an Astro content collection to see how it held up. A satisfying stress test of content collections at real scale.

Should WordPress Agencies Pay Attention to Astro?

A thinking-out-loud video from Adam Lowe aimed at WordPress agencies feeling friction with certain kinds of projects. Worth a watch if you ever need to explain to a client (or yourself) why you'd reach for something different.

A Minimalist Astro + GSAP Build

Creative developer Joffrey Spitzer breaks down the technical decisions behind his portfolio built with Astro and GSAP. Packed with real code snippets throughout.

From Gridsome to Astro: Rebuilding My Personal Site for the Next Phase

Lewis Kori walked away from a Gridsome site that had become a time capsule. Aging tooling, a stalled ecosystem, a structure that no longer matched his work. The rebuild landed on Astro hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

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Welcome to Astro Weekly #118!

This week features dynamic OG image generation with Cloudinary, improved search implementation with Orama, view counters for static sites, and more.

How to Create Dynamic OG Images in Astro with Cloudinary

Chris Nowicki demonstrates generating unique social preview images on-demand using Cloudinary's URL-based transformations and the astro-cloudinary package, eliminating manual OG image creation in Figma for every page.

The Right Way to Add Orama Search to Astro

Sarthak Mishra shows how to skip the official Orama plugin and build type-safe search using Astro endpoints and content collections, solving dev mode issues while maintaining full control over schema design and relevance tuning.

Building a View Counter for Static Sites with Supabase and Astro

Nana Adjei Manu tackles adding dynamic view counting to static sites using Supabase's PostgreSQL REST API with atomic database functions, creating a session-aware counter that avoids race conditions and works entirely client-side.

Astro.js - My Go-To Framework for Small Business Websites

Randy Tarasevich explains why Astro is his default choice for local business sites, delivering fast load times and clean SEO-friendly output without the complexity and maintenance overhead of WordPress or full-stack frameworks.

Shift64 - Built with Astro

A detailed case study of Shift64's agency website architecture: token-based content protection with Brevo integration, a Cloudflare D1-powered CMS for instant client proposals, and environment-driven consent management that balances GDPR compliance with analytics.

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Welcome to Astro Weekly #117!

From edge computing benchmarks to smart hybrid architectures, this week’s issue explores performance deep-dives, framework migrations, and a slick new content editor worth checking out.

Cloudflare Workers performance: an experiment with Astro and worldwide latencies

An in-depth performance experiment measuring Astro on Cloudflare Workers across worldwide locations, testing static assets, KV reads/writes, and SSR latencies to reveal the reality of edge computing.

From Laravel to Astro: why I rebuilt my site with the right tool for the job

Moon Pixels switched from Laravel with Inertia and React to Astro for their content-driven site, gaining near-zero JavaScript, instant performance, and dramatically lower hosting costs on Cloudflare Pages.

My favorite way to author content in Astro

Coding in Public showcases Astro Editor, a distraction-free markdown editor built specifically for Astro Content Collections with focus mode, copy editing, and seamless MDX component embedding—all free and open source.

Migrating from WordPress to MDX

Nick Diego rebuilt his site with Next.js and MDX to unlock AI-assisted workflows with Claude Code, trading database abstractions for plain text files and custom slash commands that streamline content creation.

Building a Hybrid Esports Pick'em App with Astro and Firebase

A clever architecture that serves tournament schedules as static HTML at build time while handling user authentication and picks dynamically with Firebase, combining SSG performance with SPA interactivity.

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Welcome to Astro Weekly #116!

This week features Astro 5.17's latest improvements, a fresh approach to Astro component libraries, a Notion-powered blog setup, and more!

Astro 5.17 released

Astro 5.17 ships with configurable dev toolbar placement, async parsing for the file() loader, partitioned cookies support, background colors for image transformations, and Sharp kernel selection for resizing.

Bearnie - Build your own component library

Bearnie takes a different approach to component libraries by copying components directly into your Astro project instead of shipping them as npm packages, giving you full ownership and control.

Building My Personal Blog Using Notion and Cloudflare Pages

A clever setup using Astro, GitHub Actions, and the Notion API to convert Notion pages into MDX at build time, then deploy to Cloudflare Pages.

My thoughts on Astro joining Cloudflare

Chris Pennington shares his reaction to the Astro joining Cloudflare, breaking down the acquisition announcement and what it means for Astro's future.

Painless PhotoSwipe Lightboxes for Astro MDX Blog Posts

A detailed guide to integrating PhotoSwipe with Astro's MDX and image optimization pipeline, creating performant lightboxes that work seamlessly with build-time image processing and content collections.

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State of the Open Home - Open Home Foundation

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