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Astro Weekly #46
Astro Actions stable in Astro 4.15, support for libSQL remotes in Astro DB, optimize your images with Cloudinary
Nathan Lawson
September 01, 2024
Happy Sunday, Astronauts!
In this week’s newsletter we have an exciting update to share on one of Astro’s most hyped features of 2024, updates to Astro DB, ViewTransitions, and more!
Plus, we've gathered some fantastic tools from the community to help you clean up your code, optimize your images, and ship your own Linktree.
Let’s dive in!
This week in Astro ☄️
Astro is ready for Actions
Astro 4.15 released ⚡️
Astro 4.15 introduces several key updates and improvements, with the highlight being that Astro Actions are now officially stable.
Astro Actions 🎬
Astro Actions empowers developers to create type-safe backend functions directly in Astro projects with minimal boilerplate code, making it easier to define API routes or custom functions.
Astro Actions also supports automatic TypeScript types, ensuring everything stays type-safe without extra effort.
For more information and usage examples, check out the new Actions guide.
libSQL remotes in Astro DB + more 🛰️
Beyond Astro Actions, Astro 4.15 also introduces support for libSQL remotes in Astro DB, a timeout option for client:idle, and more customization for ViewTransitions.
For a deeper dive into Astro 4.15, check out the official release post.
Astro Boosters 🚀
Launch your web apps in days with LaunchFast
LaunchFast Starter Kits helps you focus on your business with pre-built functionality and features, like:
Postgres and Redis support
Blogs with in-built Search and code syntax highlighting
Sign In & Sign Up Flow with Socials and Credentials Login
Forgot Password and Email Verification Flow
Checkout Sessions and Webhook Processing for Stripe & Lemon Squeezy
Landing and Waitlist pages
Available in Astro, Next.js, and SvelteKit, each kit is customizable and extendable. LaunchFast also includes integrations for analytics, storage, email, and more, saving you over 50+ hours of work on every new project.
Astro Community 🧑🚀
Optimize images with Cloudinary 🌟
Astro may be the best framework for creating the fastest websites, but that doesn’t mean improperly loading images can’t still affect page speed.
In this video, Jason Lengstorf explores how to optimize image delivery using the Unpic Image component alongside Cloudinary.
Astro Console Cleaner 🧹
Astro Console Cleaner is a simple but useful Astro integration by Zach Handley that removes console.log, console.warn, and console.error statements from your production code during the build process.
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…
I'm going to be at @Netlify Compose this year in October dispelling the myth that @astrodotbuild is only for SSG. But Astro also isn't a one-size-fits-all framework that forces you to learn heavy concepts for simple needs. Hope to see you there!
— Matthew Phillips (@matthewcp)
8:35 PM • Aug 29, 2024
Direct link for web version:
https://x.com/matthewcp/status/1829256530891550907
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
That’s all we have to report for this week in the Astroverse.
If you’d like to be featured in next week’s newsletter, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X.
Happy coding, Astronauts.
– Nathan 🧑🚀