Astro Weekly #50

High-performance ecommerce with Astro Storefront, Astro UI library receives major update, swapping data sources with Content Layer API and Zod

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Nathan Lawson
September 29, 2024

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Hello, Astronauts!

Between the recent WordPress drama, it’s been quite the week catching up on all things Astro in preparation for what is our 50th issue. 🎉

Whether you’re an Astronaut who’s just joined or have been with us from the start, I want to extend a huge thank you for giving me five minutes of your time each week.

And on that note, let’s see what Astro has in store for us.

What’s new with Astro 🗞️

Checkout what’s new with Astro

Introducing Astro Storefront 🛒

After years of perfecting the foundation for content-driven websites, Astro is bringing best-in-class performance to ecommerce with Astro Storefront.

Astro Storefront showcases the best of Astro under the hood, as well as connecting to related services to power payments, emails and more.

  • 🏝️ Islands architecture with SolidJS for the smallest possible runtime cost.

  • 🛍️ astro:actions to build type-safe endpoints for managing the user's session.

  • 💳 Accept payments with Stripe API.

  • 📧 Send confirmation emails to customers with Loops.

“Astro Storefront showcases the best of Astro to ship storefronts with confidence, and is the start of our commitment to high performance ecommerce.”

astro.build

Grab a sweet deal on Astro merch

Astro launches new Shop 🛍️

Astro Storefront powers the all new shop.astro.build.

To celebrate, there’s 50% off on all official Astro merch, including a limited edition Astro backpack. Grab it while you can!

Astro Boosters 🚀

Timely, budget-aligned software delivery meeting your business goals

  • Quick start and timely project delivery

  • Industry-leading expertise covering your entire SDLC

  • ELEKS-owned responsibility for your project's success

Astro Community 🧑‍🚀

Astro UI library receives major update 🆕

Astro UI library, Fulldev UI, has released its biggest update yet.

Fulldev UI now includes over 50 ready to use blocks, an automatic color palette generator, a new documentation site, and improved components.

Swapping data sources with Content Layer API 🔁

Using a combination of Astro's new Content Layer API and Zod transforms, you can switch between data sources with ease and little to no changes to your templates.

Bryan Robinson showcases how to seamlessly replace Markdown content with data from Hygraph, demonstrating the flexibility and ease of this approach in practice.

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…

Astro Showcase 🤩

Check out these impressive projects built with Astro!

Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

A timer that counts nothing.

nothing.mvze.net

Landing Page FYI

Learn how to build high-converting landing pages. Discover tips, tricks, and tools for making landing pages

landingpage.fyi

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 for this week in the Astroverse.

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

Here’s to the next 50!

– Nathan 🧑‍🚀