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Astro Weekly #112
Master Astro content collections, combine external CMS posts with Markdown, refactoring Astro live stream with core maintainer
Nathan Lawson
December 07, 2025
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Hello Astronauts,
This week in the Astro community, it’s all about content collections.
From the ultimate Astro content collections overview to techniques for combining external content with your existing Markdown files, developers are finding smarter ways to work with their content.
Plus, if you missed it, catch up on the Astro refactoring live stream, which gives a rare peek at what working on Astro looks like beneath the hood.
Let’s dive in! 🚀
What’s new with Astro 🗞️
Fresh features, updates, and announcements. The latest from Astro HQ!
Refactoring Astro with core maintainer 🛠️
This week’s main highlight comes straight from the Astro team: a live refactoring session featuring core maintainer Florian Lefebvre and J. B. Rainsberger.
Together, they crack open the Fonts API internals, walk through real-world refactoring decisions, and give a rare peek at what working on Astro looks like beneath the hood.
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Astro Community 🧑🚀
Spotlight on what’s shining in the Astroverse.
Mastering Astro content collections 🎓
Chris Pennington gives a friendly overview of Astro content collections, explaining how to define collections, use loaders, and work with type-safe, build-time data.
Even if you’re familiar with collections, this is a great refresher. Plus Chris hints at something new coming to make working with content collections even more powerful.
From Markdown to Ghost Town
Astro content collections for Ghost 👻
Jonathan Yeong shows how to load Ghost CMS posts alongside your existing Markdown files using Astro’s content collections.
You’ll see how to create a custom loader that fetches posts from Ghost, transforms the data to match your schema, and makes it renderable in Astro.
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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That’s it for this week!
Join me next week for the final issue of the year, where I’ll be sharing Astro Weekly’s annual recap of the Best Astro websites of 2025 — don’t miss it!
– Nathan 🧑🚀