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Astro Weekly #111
Boost performance with Partytown + GTM, explore mobile-friendly CMSs for Astro, serve multiple Astro projects under one domain
Nathan Lawson
November 30, 2025
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Hello Astronauts,
After surviving the Thanksgiving turkey and the Black Friday deals, it’s time to catch up on the best highlights from another week in the Astroverse.
Let’s dive in! 🚀
What’s new with Astro 🗞️
Fresh features, updates, and announcements. The latest from Astro HQ!
After Thanksgiving turkey, here’s your Astro digest
Astro November 2025 recap 🗞️
No major Astro updates this week, so after a long Thanksgiving weekend, it’s a perfect moment to catch our breath and look back on November.
What's new in Astro - November 2025 recaps all amazing things happening across the Astro ecosystem as we head into the final stretch of the year.
Highlights include:
🎇 Stainless launched an Astro-powered docs platform
🚀 Webflow’s new App Gen tool now uses Astro under the hood
🆕 Astro 5.16 brings experimental SVG optimization, interactive CLI improvements, and several DX enhancements
What was your favourite Astro update from November?
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Astro Community 🧑🚀
Spotlight on what’s shining in the Astroverse.
It’s Partytown time
Offload Google Tag Manager with Partytown 🎉
Rishi Raj Jain shows how to boost your Astro site’s performance by moving Google Tag Manager into a web worker using Partytown.
You’ll learn to set up a new Astro project, install the Partytown integration, and configure GTM so it runs without blocking the main thread.
Astro on the move
Mobile CMS options with Astro 📱
Looking to publish blog posts from anywhere? This guide explores using headless CMSs like Ghost, Sanity, TinaCMS, and PagesCMS with Astro.
It covers mobile-friendly editing, CMS setup, and integrating your workflow with Astro, showing how to streamline publishing from desktop or on the go.
Spotted in the Astroverse 🪐
A few standout posts from the community that grabbed my attention!
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
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Astro on X 🛰️
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Astro Showcase 🤩
Fresh from the launchpad: Astro sites worth a look!
That’s a wrap for this week!
Got an Astro project, tutorial, or tip to share in the newsletter? Send it my way at [email protected] or drop a DM on X.
Stay nimble out there, Astronauts.
– Nathan 🧑🚀