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Minor releases for both Astro and Starlight this week, plus a project from an Astro core maintainer that could land you your next role.
Let’s take a look!
Astro 6.3 introduces experimental advanced routing, giving you full control over your request pipeline with first-class support for frameworks like Hono, alongside redirect handling for remote images and a security-minded change to SVG processing.
Astro core maintainer Florian Lefebvre has launched a dedicated job board for the Astro ecosystem, connecting developers with roles at startups and enterprise teams alike.
Starlight 0.39 brings more flexible sidebar autogeneration, better multilingual SEO, and some neat modern CSS fixes for nested lists and layout shift.
Coding in Public walk through building a dark mode landing page in Astro from scratch, covering layout planning, responsive component design, and reusable utility patterns in a live coding session.
A candid account of migrating a real-world nonprofit site from Jekyll to Astro, covering scope creep, LLM disappointments, content layer quirks, and the hard-won lessons that came with it.
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