Another busy month in the Astroverse 🚀
Get caught up with all the April news that’s fit to print
Astro
What's new in Astro - April 2025 | AstroApril 2025 - April Launch Week, Agency Partner Program, 2 million monthly downloads, and more!
The universe keeps expanding…
Thanks for taking us past 2 million monthly npm downloads, astronauts! 🤯
Use code`last-chance` to get a ticket to attend https://sveltesummit.com in person. ticket sales close tomorrow.
If you absolutely cannot make it, you can also grab a virtual ticket https://www.sveltesummit.com/virtual-ticket
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Svelte Summit Spring 2025: Barcelona & onlineThe next in-person Svelte Summit will happen on May 8 and 9 in Barcelona, Spain! Get your tickets and submit your proposals now!
i love that youtube recommends my own talks to me like, yes well done im actually very much into that topic
🎁 Nuxt 3.17 is out, with lots to check out!
📊 major data fetching improvements
🕒 <NuxtTime> component for SSR-safe time display
⚡️ performance boosts, including faster globbing
📚 Nuxt docs-as-a-package
happy upgrading ❤️
👉 read more at https://nuxt.com/blog/v3-17
Nuxt
Nuxt 3.17 · Nuxt BlogNuxt 3.17 is out - bringing a major reworking of the async data layer, a new built-in component, better warnings, and performance improvements!
As part of #e18e, the community is often asked when you should or shouldn't bundle your dependencies as a library or developer tool author.
Much of this has come around thanks to people noticing that Vite does indeed bundle most of its #dependencies. Similarly, #Storybook has been known to do the same.
So when is this the right thing to do, and when is it not?
e18e.dev
Bundling dependencies (and when not to do it)A brief write up on when you should or shouldn't bundle dependencies
Version 9 of #StoryBook is now in beta and they already did an incredible Job by downsizing it to half the size! @storybookjs
Find the full thread here: https://bsky.app/profile/storybook.js.org/post/3lnlivip7qk27
Bluesky Social
Storybook (@storybook.js.org)Storybook 9 is now in beta! It’s ready for you to try today. Let’s see what’s inside… https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-9-beta/
www.sveltesummit.com
Svelte Summit Spring 2025: Barcelona & onlineThe next in-person Svelte Summit will happen on May 8 and 9 in Barcelona, Spain! Get your tickets and submit your proposals now!
Discord
Tritt dem Rust and C++ Dragons-Discord-Server bei!Sieh dir die Rust and C++ Dragons-Community auf Discord an – häng mit 166 anderen Mitgliedern ab und freu dich über kostenlose Sprach- und Textchats.
Guess I've been a blueskyer for a while now, https://bsky.app/profile/orta.io
Bluesky Social
Orta Therox (@orta.io)Somewhat indie games dev/founder on @puzzmo.com with @stfj.net and friends - always thinking about dev tooling Prior work on @typescriptlang.org and @artsy.net
Give us your thoughts on the benchmarking feature in Vitest ⚡️
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Benchmarking Support · vitest-dev vitest · Discussion #7850Vitest provides an experimental support for benchmarking for quite a while now. So far, the feature is still kept as experimental because we identified several issues that we think should be resolv...
Meet the 2025 Technical Steering committee (TSC)
Astro
2025 Technical Steering Committee | AstroMeet Astro’s 2025 Technical Steering Committee and learn how our open governance model supports the framework’s growth, performance, and community-led development.
Celebrating 500 themes in the Astro Theme Catalogue
Astro
Themes | AstroElevate your style with our stellar designs.
Introducing the Astro Agency Partner program
Astro
Astro Agency Partner Program | AstroAnnouncing the Astro Agency Partner Program, a new way to connect with expert Astro agencies
Starlight 0.34
- Built-in heading anchor links
- Tailwind 4 support
- CSS cascade layers
- Improved `<head>` APIs
Astro
Starlight April Update | AstroRejuvenate your docs with heading anchor links, Tailwind v4 support, CSS @layer, and a new head metadata API.
Astro 5.7
- New Experimental Fonts API
- New Sessions API
- New SVG Components
- New Config Imports
Astro
Astro 5.7 | AstroAstro 5.7 has a basketload of treats, including stable Sessions and SVG components and a new Experimental Fonts API.
We have a new Technical Steering Committee (TSC)!
Welcome core maintainers Ema (@ematipico), Florian, and Matt (@ascorbic) to the Astro TSC to guide Astro's technical direction and ensure a healthy codebase for many years to come.
We're also excited to announce Matt stepping into the role of framework team lead alongside @sarah11918 (current docs team lead)! 🤘
Read the full post for all the nerdy OSS governance details:
Astro
2025 Technical Steering Committee | AstroMeet Astro’s 2025 Technical Steering Committee and learn how our open governance model supports the framework’s growth, performance, and community-led development.
Set sail with the latest Starlight release!
⚓ Built-in heading anchor links
🌬️ Tailwind 4 support
🌊 CSS cascade layers
🌚 Improved `<head>` APIs
Learn more: https://astro.build/blog/starlight-034/
Astro
Starlight April Update | AstroRejuvenate your docs with heading anchor links, Tailwind v4 support, CSS @layer, and a new head metadata API.
The sun is setting as launch week nears the end...
Monday — Ecosystem Party 🥳
Tuesday — 4...3...2...1... 5.7 🚀
Wednesday — Meet the new features 🔬
Thursday — Stellar updates for your docs 💫
Friday — ???
In Astro 5.7, every SVG is an Astro component! Import it, use it in your page and it will be inlined in the HTML. You can even pass it any SVG props.
Learn more: https://astro.build/blog/astro-570/#svg-components
Astro
Astro 5.7 | AstroAstro 5.7 has a basketload of treats, including stable Sessions and SVG components and a new Experimental Fonts API.
Type-safe, and as easy to use as get() and set(). Store large, complex objects. Everything is stored on the server, avoiding user tampering.
Session cookies are handled automatically, or go cookieless and handle the IDs yourself.
Session storage is zero-config on Node.js and Netlify, almost-zero on Cloudflare and Vercel, or choose from loads of built-in storage drivers, including Redis and SQL.
The Astro Sessions API is easy out of the box, and as customizable as you need.
Astro
Astro 5.7 | AstroAstro 5.7 has a basketload of treats, including stable Sessions and SVG components and a new Experimental Fonts API.
New in Astro 5.7, the Sessions API lets you store user data securely on the server, without the limitations of cookies.
Great for shopping carts, user settings, form state, and lots more.
Automatic fallback fonts avoid painful layout jumps, and preloads get your most important fonts ready from the first load.
Customize them to your heart's content, with subsetting and all the typographic features you can dream of.
Learn more here: https://astro.build/blog/astro-570/#experimental-fonts-api
Astro
Astro 5.7 | AstroAstro 5.7 has a basketload of treats, including stable Sessions and SVG components and a new Experimental Fonts API.
New in Astro 5.7: the experimental Fonts API. Say goodbye to boring fonts.
Built for performance, privacy and ease of use, the API makes it simple to add beautiful custom fonts to your site.
We're halfway through launch week! Time for a closer look.
Monday — Ecosystem Party 🥳
Tuesday — 4...3...2...1... 5.7 🚀
Wednesday — Meet the new features 🔬
Thursday — ???
Friday — ???
Vite 6.3 is out! ⚡️
- preprocessor support with LightningCSS
- FetchableDevEnvironment interface
- filter option on hooks, enabling faster plugins with rolldown-vite. Stay tuned for more news soon!
Check the complete changelog at
https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/main/packages/vite/CHANGELOG.md#630-2025-04-16
GitHub
vite/packages/vite/CHANGELOG.md at main · vitejs/viteNext generation frontend tooling. It's fast! Contribute to vitejs/vite development by creating an account on GitHub.
It’s day 2 and we have 3 experimental features graduating to stable 🎓
🖼️ Import SVGs as Astro components
👤 Store and persist user sessions
⚙️ Import your config values
And a new one to take their place!
🖋️ Experimental Fonts API: configurable, optimized, type-safe
Read more: https://astro.build/blog/astro-570/
Astro
Astro 5.7 | AstroAstro 5.7 has a basketload of treats, including stable Sessions and SVG components and a new Experimental Fonts API.
Launch week continues, with a fantastic new release!
Monday — Ecosystem Party 🥳
Tuesday — 4...3...2...1... 5.7 🚀
Wednesday — ???
Thursday — ???
Friday — ???
I’m not rosy-eyed about Harvard’s imperfections, but I’m still deeply grateful it can use its institutional weight as a bulwark against extraordinary societal threats.
Harvard Gazette
Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration“The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” says President Garber.
Each of these agencies brings unique strengths to the program and has contributed to the Astro ecosystem. We will be announcing more partners soon. Read on to learn more, and get in touch if you think your agency should be one of them.
https://astro.build/blog/astro-agency-partners/
Lucky Media delivers bespoke software solutions that transform businesses. With experience that spans from startups to enterprise, they have been a long-time supporter of the Astro open source project
https://astro.build/agencies/lucky-media/
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Lucky Media | Partner Agency | AstroFor over a decade, we have been a leading software development agency. We deliver bespoke software solutions that transform businesses. Our experience spans…
EXDST specializes in building high-performance websites using Sitecore and other digital experience platforms. A committed supporter of the Astro ecosystem, they maintain the Astro Sitecore integration and several starter templates
https://astro.build/agencies/exdst/
Astro
EXDST | Partner Agency | AstroSince 2015, EXDST has specialized in Sitecore and other leading digital experience platforms, including Contentful, Sanity, and Optimizely. With over 250,000…
58agents designs, builds, and scales digital products and services — turning ideas into impactful solutions with an interdisciplinary team of experts
https://astro.build/agencies/58agents/
Astro
58agents GmbH | Partner Agency | Astro58agents turns bold ideas into engaging and accessible digital platforms. We design and build content-rich websites with Astro, seamlessly integrating them…
Bejamas builds fast, modern websites using Astro, other high-performing frameworks and most popular Headless CMS solutions. They have been helping companies deliver digital experiences that are smooth, scalable, and easy to maintain since 2018
https://astro.build/agencies/bejamas/
Astro
Bejamas | Partner Agency | AstroBejamas is helping companies build better websites. We combine modern technology with exceptional design to create websites that drive real business impact. We…
Do you have your heart set on a new Astro project, or does your site need some love? 🥰
The Astro Agency Partner program is like a matchmaker for Astro creators 💘
Browse our directory of hand-picked agencies to find the perfect partner, or apply now if you think your agency has what it takes.
https://astro.build/blog/astro-agency-partners
We've worked with agencies from around the world to create the Astro Agency Partner program. Meet our first four launch partners and see how they can help with your next Astro project 👇
Astro
Astro Agency Partner Program | AstroAnnouncing the Astro Agency Partner Program, a new way to connect with expert Astro agencies
Or, if you’re @bholmesdev , you can have your own corner of the web in 60 seconds ⏱️
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Ben Holmes (@BHolmesDev) on XBUILD A BLOG SPEEDRUN ⏰ First sub-1 minute run. @astrodotbuild Starlight template was a huge cheat code. Can you beat my time? 👀
To start the week, we're celebrating a milestone: 500 themes in the Astro theme catalogue!
With an Astro theme, you can have your own corner of the web in minutes ⏱️
Professional? Fun? Minimal? Which theme will you choose for your next project?
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Themes | AstroElevate your style with our stellar designs.