Astro Weekly #43

Early preview of new Astro features, Server Islands hype continues to build, building a lightning-fast blog with Astro

Happy Sunday, Astronauts!

It’s a quieter week inside the Astroverse, but fret not, we have an early preview of some exciting updates coming to Astro soon, plus a double dose of community content as the hype around Server Islands keeps growing.

Let’s dive in.

This week in Astro ☄️

No major news or announcements to report from the Astro team this week, but they did drop a teaser on X (as well as a couple of other bangers) demonstrating a big quality-of-life improvement coming to Astro soon.

Type checking in frontmatter ✅

That’s right, type checking is coming to Markdown frontmatter in Astro, which means one less excuse for why our applications are broken!

While no official release date has been given, we can expect type checking support to arrive soon. Stay tuned for more!

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Astro Community 🧑‍🚀

t3.gg chats Server Islands 🏝️

Server Islands are officially cool. Theo Browne, better known as t3.gg, has weighed in with his thoughts on Astro Server Islands.

After the chaotic journey through SPAs, SSR, ISR, and PPR, Theo explains why you too should be feeling pretty hyped about Astro's latest innovations.

Server Islands hype is real 🔥

The hype around Astro Server Islands continues to build.

Astro content creator, Chris Pennington, has also chimed in with his thoughts, including an awesome demonstration of Server Islands within an application.

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…

Astro Showcase 🤩

Check out these impressive projects built with Astro!

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’s a wrap for this week in Astro.

If you’d like to be featured in next week’s newsletter, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X.

Safe coding, Astronauts.

– Nathan 🧑‍🚀