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Astro Weekly #25
Authenticate your Astro app with Clerk, build a Netflix-style web app with Astro DB, March 2024 recap
Nathan Lawson
April 02, 2024
Greetings Astronauts!
In today’s newsletter, we’ll be taking a quick look back on the madness that was March, exploring new authentication methods for your Astro projects, using Astro DB to create a Netflix-style web app, as well as our usual roundup of community resources, and Astro Showcase to ignite your imagination.
Go for launch.
This week month in Astro ✨
What a month it was
What’s new in Astro - March 2024 🆕
Astro DB, Astro Studio, Astro Developer Portal, Astro 4.5 + more. It’s fair to say Astro’s Trello board was a little busy in March.
If you need a reminder of everything that unfolded in March 2024, Elian van Cutsem has you covered.
Ever feel like someone is doing your job for you?
Astro Boosters 🚀
The ultimate tool for Tailwind CSS
Astro Weekly is brought to you this week with the support of Tailscan.
Tailscan is the ultimate tool for Tailwind CSS. Build, design, and debug your Tailwind website visually with Tailscan, right within the browser.
Astro Community 🧑🚀
Let Clerk do the work
Clerk support has landed in Astro with an all-new community SDK.
Authenticate your Astro apps with Clerk’s pre-built components or utilize the isomorphic auth store to create your own custom flows.
Export prebuilt UI components as Astro components including sign-in, sign-up, and user profiles. Two starter kits are also available in either JS or React.
You can also see Clerk + Astro in action by checking out this demo:
https://astro-clerk.elef.codes/
Build a Netflix-style web app with Astro 📺
Tudum.
Forget watching Arrested Development for the hundredth time, why not binge-watch this epic stream as Jason Lengstof attempts to recreate a Netflix-style web interface using Astro and Astro DB?
What else I’ve been reading this week 🤓
Check out these great posts from the Astro Community ↓
If you have something awesome you’d like to share with the Astro community, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X
Astro on X 💫
What’s happening on Twitter X this week…
Have you checked out Astro Studio yet? You should! The new db thing is so straightforward and fun to play with!
It's kind of incredible how much you can get with just a couple of clicks 😍 Web rocks!— StackBlitz (@stackblitz)
3:54 PM • Mar 26, 2024
Direct link for web version:
https://twitter.com/stackblitz/status/1772653458081886322
Astro Showcase 🤩
Bringing creativity to life
If this week’s Astro Showcase feels familiar, you’re not alone.
Anatole Touvron is a multidisciplinary developer specializing in animations and interactions, formerly of Lusion whose incredible website you may remember from our showcase in Astro Weekly #10.
Anatole has now applied the magic touch to their portfolio, built with Astro, GSAP, and Three.js. Anatole’s work is brought to life with several creative hover effects, plus some very nice use of Views Transitions.
Other Astro projects in orbit 🪐
More great Astro projects worth checking out! ↓
Would you like your work to be featured in our Astro Showcase? Get in touch at [email protected] or DM me on X
Beyond the Astrosphere 🪐
What caught my eye outside of Astro this week…
JoinRepo — automate access to private repos on GitHub
Blip — a fast way to send files anywhere
Boilermates — directory of boilerplates for popular frameworks
That’s all for now, folks!
If you wish to share something with your fellow Astronauts in a future issue, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X.
In the meantime, have fun out there.
– Nathan 🧑🚀