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Astro Weekly #41
Astro StudioCMS public beta release, Clerk release official Astro SDK, a new way to make Astro interactive
Nathan Lawson
July 28, 2024
Hello, Astronauts!
Following a major week of Astro news and releases, it's now the community's turn to shine.
Today's newsletter includes several exciting announcements from the Astro community that promise to elevate your Astro projects to new heights.
Fasten your seatbelts and read on to find out more!
This week in Astro ☄️
Server Islands with Matthew Phillips 🏝️
In case you missed it, experimental Server Islands shipped with Astro 4.12.
Server Islands extend the concept of Astro’s islands architecture to the server side, allowing for the seamless integration of high-performance static HTML with dynamic, server-generated components.
If you’re keen to learn more about this exciting new feature, who better to tell you than Astro co-creator Matthew Phillips? Matthew joined Ryan Carniato on a livestream to provide an in-depth explanation.
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Clerk’s Astro SDK is all grown up
Clerk Astro SDK official release 🔐
Clerk has released an official SDK for Astro, enabling easy integration of authentication inside Astro applications.
It features pre-built UI components, middleware, and utilities for user and organization management, route protection, and more. The SDK also supports React within Astro.
For further details, check the Astro Quickstart guide.
Astro StudioCMS beta release 🚀
Astro StudioCMS, the community-driven CMS designed exclusively for Astro and Astro Studio, has announced its first public beta.
The release includes a Markdown editor with live preview, page management, Unpic image integration, and multi-account authentication.
Users can start immediately by following the Get Started guide and are encouraged to join the Astrolicious Discord server for support and feedback.
What else I’ve been reading this week 🤓
Check out these great posts/videos 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…
Introducing JQuer- wait *ahem* simple query ✨
The best way to make Astro interactive!- query elements with $
- create scoped ids to avoid global conflicts
- use npm packages and TS from any script> astro add simple-stack-query
— Ben Holmes (@BHolmesDev)
1:23 PM • Jul 22, 2024
Direct link for web version:
https://x.com/BHolmesDev/status/1815377097562411488
Astro Showcase 🤩
Awesome projects built with Astro that are 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
And that about does it for this week. Thanks for reading!
Got something to share next week? As always, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X.
Happy coding, Astronauts.
– Nathan 🧑🚀