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Greetings, Astronauts!
From component tooling to performance experiments and creative portfolios, there's a lot to dig into this week. Let's get into it!
Community-built Storybook framework for Astro. If you've wanted a proper component workshop for your Astro project, this is the one to watch.
Raymond Camden loaded all 6,742 posts from his blog into an Astro content collection to see how it held up. A satisfying stress test of content collections at real scale.
A thinking-out-loud video from Adam Lowe aimed at WordPress agencies feeling friction with certain kinds of projects. Worth a watch if you ever need to explain to a client (or yourself) why you'd reach for something different.
Creative developer Joffrey Spitzer breaks down the technical decisions behind his portfolio built with Astro and GSAP. Packed with real code snippets throughout.
Lewis Kori walked away from a Gridsome site that had become a time capsule. Aging tooling, a stalled ecosystem, a structure that no longer matched his work. The rebuild landed on Astro hosted on Cloudflare Pages.
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