Astro Weekly #51

Happy Sunday, Astronauts.

This week, we have some exciting highlights: catch up on insightful videos from the Astro team at ViteConf, exploring the potential for first-party support for fonts in Astro, plus new ways to work with images and video in Astro with a powerful new SDK.

There’s plenty more in store, so let’s jump right in!

What’s new with Astro 🗞️

Astro @ ViteConf ‘24 🎙️

Members of the Astro core team took to the virtual stage this week at ViteConf 2024, joining a lineup of 43 talks from top community leaders building the growing Vite-based ecosystem, including Astro, Vue, Svelte, and more.

Astro Docs Lead Sarah Rainsberger and core maintainer Ben Holmes both presented insightful talks during the event. If you missed it, catch the replays at the links below:

• The Future of the Web is Local First 🔮

• Docs as Community Building 📝

If that’s not enough, you can also watch the full 12-hour event on YouTube!

Astro Boosters 🚀

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 🧑‍🚀

Astro Cloudinary SDK ☁️

Cloudinary has launched an official SDK for Astro, providing a powerful API to seamlessly manage images and videos in your Astro projects

What’s included?

• Automatically optimize images and videos with responsive sizes and modern formats.

• Transform assets using dynamic Cropping and Resizing, Background Replacement, other Generative AI, and more.

• Drop-in widget for easily uploading assets into the cloud.

• Easiest way to create beautiful social cards in Astro.

First-party fonts support in Astro 🔠

Astro is exploring first-party support for fonts, aiming to simplify font management and improve performance in Astro projects without relying on third-party tools.

Join the discussion on GitHub to share your thoughts and help shape this possible new feature in a future Astro release.

What else I’ve been reading this week 🤓

Check out these great posts from the Astro Community ↓

• 🔒 Authentication with GitHub with Lucia, Astro JS, and Cloudflare D1 Database

• 🌩️ Astro + Cloudflare Pages: A Beginner's Guide to Fast and Easy Deployment

• 📺 Mixing static and dynamic content with Astro Server Islands

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…

Direct link for web version:
https://x.com/stackblitz/status/1841873258871980442

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 it for this week inside the Astroverse.

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See you same time next week, Astronauts!

– Nathan 🧑‍🚀