Fresh releases and fresh ideas this week.

Astro 7.3 brings useful improvements for local development—and Starlight cut its JavaScript while adding more in one release.

Astro 7.3 adds multiple preview servers and logger improvements

Astro 7.3 lets you run multiple preview servers with the --ignore-lock flag, now available for both dev and preview modes. Image services and cache providers can now respect your configured log levels, and more.

Starlight 0.42 ships less code by leaning on browser primitives

Starlight now uses the browser's Popover API for mobile menus, which means your site works even if JavaScript fails to load. This release also ships Starlight as compiled JavaScript instead of TypeScript.

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Building a documentation site with Astro and Markdown

A hands-on guide to documentation architecture with Astro. Flavio walks through content collections, dynamic routes, automatic sidebar and navigation generation, and integrating Pagefind for static search.

New integration connects Astro to the AT Protocol

@at-astro is a new integration that handles AT Protocol OAuth in Astro, giving you utilities to get an authenticated client and manage sign in and sign out flows. It's built to help developers create AppViews—applications that run on top of Bluesky's protocol.

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That's what caught my eye this week.

If you’ve found something in the Astro ecosystem that caught yours, send it my way at nathan@astroweekly.dev.

Heads up, Astro Weekly will be taking a short break whilst I’m on vacation in Orlando, Florida. Our next issue will land October 4, 2026.

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Your Astro workflow is about to level up.

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From Webflow to Astro with AI: lessons from an entire site migration

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How to gate content in Astro without the complexity

Building password-free access in Astro means leaning into email: one-time links, no sessions stored in databases, instant access control through your repo. Hans shows the approach for clubs, courses, and more.

Astrotypes brings 200+ curated font pairings to your Astro toolbar

A CLI and Astro dev toolbar app that puts 200+ tested font pairings one command away. Search, preview on your actual pages, test light and dark themes, and copy the install command.

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If you've hit any walls building with Astro lately, send over your tips and wins to nathan@astroweekly.dev.

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Open source CMS for Astro and static sites

Sitepins is an open-source, Git-based CMS lets your entire team edit content visually while keeping full version control. Works with Astro, Next.js, Hugo, and sites built with Claude or Lovable.

Do sites perform better after leaving Astro?

When prominent Astro showcase sites switched to Next.js, PageSpeed scores changed by just a few points either direction. The real-user data, however, exposed a fundamental limitation in how we measure performance for shared origins.

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Speed, scale, and architecture.

This week brings faster builds, a pattern for content collections that grows with you, a way to turn your docs into AI capabilities, and a complete billing system on Cloudflare Workers.

How to design Astro content collections that scale

A practical guide of the design choices that make collections work at scale: loader selection, format decisions, references between collections, and the constraints that prevent chaos.

Turn your Starlight docs into AI skills

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How to add Polar payments to an Astro app

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A chat widget built for Astro

A self-contained chat widget for Astro that handles streaming markdown, stays non-modal on desktop, solves the iOS keyboard problem with a viewport-aware sheet, and includes offline FAQ entries.

Build twice as fast: Starwind's Astro 7 win

Starwind Pro saved over two minutes per production build by moving to Astro 7. The post covers the prep work, the migration, and the custom HTML minifier that made the difference.

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Loro Labs

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The Astro ecosystem keeps quietly shipping wins.

This week brings our first look at incremental static builds, a bold experiment in maintainer burnout relief, and a collection of deep-dives into the trickier parts of the framework.

Astro 7.2: Experimental incremental static builds

Astro 7.2 introduces experimental incremental static builds that skip re-rendering prerendered pages when their code and data haven't changed. The release also adds session disable options, background mode for preview servers, and more.

How we built a software factory to drive Astro's GitHub issue count to zero

Cloudflare automated Astro issue triage with AI subagents that reproduce bugs, diagnose root causes, and generate preview releases. The repository's open issue count dropped from 200+ to roughly 30 in months. The underlying Flue framework is open source.

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Astro Islands: when NOT to Hydrate

A decision tree for building interactive components without unnecessary JavaScript: static HTML, build-time data, server islands, progressive enhancement, and hydration, in that order. Knowing when to skip the framework matters as much as knowing when to use it.

Rendering remote content in Astro using React components

Kate Bartolo explores three approaches to rendering remote Markdown with React components, solving layout flash and missing interactivity. The solution combines server-side MDX compilation, serializable data attributes, and client-side hydration to avoid re-renders.

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That's the batch for this week—hope it gave you some ideas to experiment with.

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This week's issue answers that question in five different ways, from custom search that cuts 94% of JavaScript to forms that work without a backend layer. Let’s take a look!

Building production forms in Astro with Actions

Rishi Raj Jain walks through creating type-safe forms using Astro Actions with server-side Zod validation, Cloudflare Turnstile for spam protection, and Resend for email, all running on Cloudflare Workers without a separate backend.

Deploying an Astro blog to Laravel Cloud

Nicolas Hedger moved his Astro blog from Fly.io to Laravel Cloud using the Node adapter in standalone mode, discovering that a simple HOST environment variable binding was the only workaround needed to reduce his deployment platforms.

Whitespace handling in Astro 7.0 and how to fix it

Astro 7.0's new Rust compiler changes how whitespace renders between adjacent elements, removing automatic spaces unless explicitly added. Cassidy Williams shows how enabling compressHTML in your config restores the old behavior without refactoring components.

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Building a custom search with Astro collections and cutting 94% of JavaScript

Sean van Zuidam replaced DocSearch on Fylgja CSS with a custom search built from Astro collections, reducing JavaScript from 37.8 KB gzipped to 2.7 KB by building a static index at build time instead of shipping a third-party component.

Emit static assets from Astro components and endpoints

Astro Emit Asset is a new integration that lets you generate static files like open graph images, PDFs, and audio at build time as a side effect of pages and components, with automatic caching when inputs haven't changed.

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Summer's heating up, and if you're building anything with Astro, the ecosystem's giving you plenty of firepower this week.

We've got a build challenge kicking off, AI agents finally knocking on your Astro door, and two deep dives on shipping fast. Let's go.

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Astro WebMCP: Expose your site to AI agents

WebMCP is a web standard that lets websites declare structured tools for AI agents to discover and use. This integration surfaces your Astro site's content and capabilities via WebMCP—declare once in your config, and allow agents find them natively.

Serving a website with Astro on Cloudflare Workers static assets

Flavio walks through deploying Astro on Cloudflare Workers static assets: your static files serve instantly and free from the edge, and your Worker only runs when you need logic. It's a cleaner hosting story for content-heavy sites than most alternatives.

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Terminal recordings for Astro

Nicolas wanted terminal recordings in his docs without the friction of player setup, theme switching, and imports in every article. He built an integration that treats .cast files as assets, handles theme switches without restarting, and renders them in one line.

Astro vs Next.js in 2026

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Argentina and Spain are contesting the World Cup final right now, and this issue is scheduled to land squarely in your half-time scroll.

Astro 7.1 shipped this week with real control over your builds, and more. Here’s five links worth your time before the second half kicks off.

Astro 7.1: More control across the board

Astro 7.1 adds finer CSP control, flexible pagination URLs, concurrent dev servers, and memory optimization for large content collections.

Now is the best time to learn Astro

Astro started as a bet against shipping bloated JavaScript. Five years later, Cloudflare's backing and a consolidating ecosystem prove it was right. This video explains why Astro went from alternative to the obvious choice.

Passwordless client portals with Astro

Hans built a client portal that signs people in via magic link and streams live invoices from Moneybird's API, storing no data. It's a case study in what Astro's server-side rendering makes possible when you treat your existing tools as the database.

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Building serverless icon services with Astro and Workers

Amaan hit Cloudflare's bundle limit and had to completely rethink his architecture. This post breaks down real serverless decisions—when to build versus when to load, how to work within constraints, and patterns that work on any budget.

Fixing Markdown indentation across frameworks

Most Markdown libraries treat indentation as code blocks, forcing you to write ugly, unindented components. A new utility fixes that problem and works across Astro, React, Vue, and Svelte.

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That's it from me this week.

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Guten Tag, Astronauts! Dust off those passports. Astro is coming together once more, this time in Frankfurt, Germany.

Elsewhere in Europe, teaching's taking root in university classrooms, and a penguin trust in New Zealand just ditched WordPress for speed.

Astro Together comes to Frankfurt

After the success of Astro Together London, Astro is heading to Germany for an evening of talks, live demos, and exclusive swag. Free to attend, but spaces are limited.

Why the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences chose Astro

Teaching designers to build with APIs shouldn't mean configuring a bundler first. Jad Joubran explains why Astro's "HTML-first, JavaScript when you need it" philosophy makes it the ideal teaching tool.

Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust: 85% faster load times with Astro and CloudCannon

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How to add a draft system to Astro

Astro doesn't ship draft support out of the box. Themefisher shows a lightweight workflow to gate unpublished content from production builds.

Stop defaulting to WordPress

WordPress survives through twenty years of inertia, not innovation. Syed Umair makes the case that Astro's zero-JavaScript default, static architecture, and Git-based content management beat WordPress for portfolios, blogs, and marketing sites.

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Codapress is an independent British publisher creating high-quality books for modern learners navigating design, code, and technology.

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To our US readers, hope the July 4th celebrations were good ones.

This week's issue has plenty going on too, starting with a build pipeline that's now twice as fast, plus a massive migration story, and a clever take on related content in Astro.

What Astro’s new compiler means for you

Coding in Public breaks down why Astro 7 arrived so soon after v6, thanks to Vite 8 and a new Rust-based Rolldown bundler. Plus a gotcha that could quietly break your markup the moment you upgrade.

How one team moved 62,000 pages from Next.js to Astro

A redesign of a Polish university's platform ditched a React-heavy Next.js setup for Astro SSR, centralising a messy GraphQL layer and adding aggressive caching along the way.

Generate related posts with AI, not tags

Phil Nash built an Astro integration that creates vector embeddings for your content collections and surfaces genuinely similar posts, no manual tagging or frontmatter wrangling required.

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Astro 7 cuts build times in half, with real numbers

Astro 7's new Rust-based compiler and Vite 8 took one 743-page site from 103 seconds to 47 seconds locally, and from roughly 7 minutes to 2 on Cloudflare Pages.

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If you were waiting for the full release before upgrading to Astro 7.0, your wait is over. Astro 7.0 is out of beta and into the world, bringing huge boosts to build times.

Plenty more from the ecosystem alongside it this week too.

Astro 7.0 ships its fastest build pipeline yet

Astro 7.0 is live and the headline is speed. The compiler has been rewritten in Rust, Markdown processing gets a new Rust pipeline, and real-world builds are up to 61% faster.

Starwind UI 2.0 ships skills for AI coding agents

Starwind UI 2.0 ships four new components, a reworked overlay system, and Starwind Skills, a set of installable instructions for AI coding agents. The CLI now handles component search and docs too.

How one developer deployed a million-page Astro site

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How to migrate an Astro site to CloudCannon with Agent Skills

Tom from CloudCannon walks through migrating an Astro site to their CMS, letting Agent Skills handle the setup and configuration. Covers the full migration and getting the editing experience ready for non-technical users.

Meet Fate, a React data client for Astro islands

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That’s everything for another week.

If you've upgraded to Astro 7.0 and have thoughts, or you've spotted something worth sharing, I'd love to hear from you at nathan@astroweekly.dev or DM me on X.

Enjoy those faster build times!

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Relax, the World Cup puns are on the bench this week.

Instead, we have a new animation library built from the ground up for Astro, and a fascinating experiment handing a three-major-version upgrade to Anthropic's latest and most powerful model.

AstroAnimate — animation library for Astro

A new CSS-first animation library built specifically for Astro's Islands architecture. Zero runtime JavaScript by default, native View Transitions support, and optional JS-based engines like GSAP when you need them.

Upgrading from Astro 3 to 6 with Claude Fable

What happens when you throw three major versions of upgrade work at Claude Fable, Anthropic's latest and most powerful model? Dan Neciu found out and wrote up the whole thing, production hiccups included.

Edit, preview, and export Astro themes visually with AeroLaunch

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That’s all for this week, Astronauts!

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Catch you next Sunday,

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Big week. The World Cup is underway, the USA put four past Paraguay on Friday, oh and the Astro v7 beta also dropped!

Perfect reading for half-time.

What's changing in Astro 7.0

The Astro 7.0 beta is live and the upgrade is lighter than most. The Rust compiler is now the default, @astrojs/db is gone for good, and Vite 8 is now under the hood. Read the migration guide or try it out today with npx @astrojs/upgrade beta .

A 1kb JavaScript layer for Astro sites that want to stay lean

Webuum is a new alpha that wraps Custom Elements to handle dialogs, popovers, and accordions without a framework. Built around native browser APIs and the Invoker Commands spec, it weighs 1kb gzipped and is a natural fit for Astro and any other server-rendered stack.

How rebuilding in Astro doubled our users overnight

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Starlight 0.40 adds support for the Sätteri Markdown processor

Starlight 0.40 adds opt-in support for Astro's Sätteri Markdown processor, introduced in Astro 6.4 for faster builds. Note the minimum Astro version is now 6.4.5, so run npx @astrojs/upgrade to update both together.

How to add a cookie banner to your Astro site without pulling in a framework

PolicyStack Consent is a headless, sub-4kb state machine for consent management. This walkthrough shows how to pair it with an Astro component — HTML rendered at build time, a small vanilla script to wire up the store, no React required.

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And that's full-time on Astro Weekly #135!

As ever, if you have a link worth sharing, please send it over to nathan@astroweekly.dev or DM me on X. Thanks to all who've been in touch recently.

Right, back to the football.

Nathan 👋

It's World Cup week. Football is back on the world stage — and yes, it's football, not soccer, at least from where I'm sitting in England.

Astro have timed a new merch drop perfectly for the summer of sport, and the rest of this issue has plenty to keep you busy between matches.

Let's get into it.

Astro Mart: Summer 2026 Collection

Astro have launched their Summer 2026 merch collection just in time for the World Cup, including personalised home and away jerseys for the Club Deportivo de Astronautas where you can add your own name and number.

How an Astro core maintainer thinks about documentation

A great listen for anyone who ships features and writes docs: Astro core maintainer Florian Lefebvre shares how his mindset shifted from treating docs as a burden to seeing them as inseparable from shipping features.

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TinaCMS is making Astro its default starter

TinaCMS are making Astro their default starter, and with Astro clone numbers already ahead of Next.js, it's not hard to see why.

Optimise images and video in Astro with ImageKit

The official Astro docs now have a full guide to using ImageKit, covering automatic image optimisation, AI-powered transformations, video delivery, and client-side uploads.

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That's it for #134. Enjoy the football — or soccer, if you must — and I'll be back next Sunday with more from the Astro ecosystem.

If you've got a project, tool, article, or integration worth sharing, send it over to nathan@astroweekly.dev or DM me on X.

Have a great week!

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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

A walkthrough for generating OG images from Content Collection frontmatter via a single API call, skipping Satori JSX in favour of a visual template editor that non-engineers can update without touching the codebase.

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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!

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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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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

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Fly safe out there, Astronauts!

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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!

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Have a great week building!

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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 👋