Astro Weekly #47

SSR support for Starlight, user-generated content with Astro Actions, Astro is throwing a party and you're invited

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Nathan Lawson
September 08, 2024

Greetings, Astronauts!

This week, the internet has been buzzing with talk of Astro—though I believe the gamers among you might have a different Astro in mind!

For all you developers, however, we're diving into what's new with Starlight, sharing more insights on Astro Actions, and an invitation to an Astro party.

Keep reading for all the exciting details and more!

This week in Astro ☄️

A (SSR)isously good update

Starlight now available on demand 🌟

Starlight v0.27.0 introduces a significant new and long-awaited update—support for full on-demand page rendering.

With server-rendered Starlight pages, gated content is now possible. You can explore a demo here: Starlight SSR Demo.

When using hybrid or server output modes, you can set the new prerender option in the Starlight config to false, enabling all Starlight pages to be rendered on-demand. 

export default defineConfig({
  output: 'server',
  integrations: [
    starlight({
      prerender: false,
    }),
  ],
});

For details on other features shipping in v0.27.0, check out the release notes.

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User-generated content with Astro Actions ⚡️

Astro Actions are the new way of creating server-side functionality within Astro.

In this live stream, Bryan Robinson will examine how to combine Actions with Hygraph mutations to deal with user-generated content.

Ain’t no party like an Astro party

Astro Party workshop 🥳

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This workshop is for developers and teams who want to build high-performing websites using Astro's simple, standards-based approach.

What else I’ve been reading/watching this week 🤓

Check out these great posts from the Astro Community ↓

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Astro Showcase 🤩

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That’s it 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.

Now, time to pick up a controller and check out Astro Bot.

Happy coding gaming, Astronauts.

– Nathan 🧑‍🚀