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Relax, the World Cup puns are on the bench this week.
Instead, we have a new animation library built from the ground up for Astro, and a fascinating experiment handing a three-major-version upgrade to Anthropic's latest and most powerful model.
A new CSS-first animation library built specifically for Astro's Islands architecture. Zero runtime JavaScript by default, native View Transitions support, and optional JS-based engines like GSAP when you need them.
What happens when you throw three major versions of upgrade work at Claude Fable, Anthropic's latest and most powerful model? Dan Neciu found out and wrote up the whole thing, production hiccups included.
AeroLaunch have launched a visual point-and-click editor for their Astro theme collection. Click any section, edit copy and images live, then download a complete runnable Astro project with everything baked in.
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A starter kit combining headless Shopify with a Decap CMS-powered blog. No GraphQL required — components fetch from Shopify at runtime — and it ships with a full cart, checkout flow, and five pre-built pages.
Hans Martens walks through building a canvas-based glitch animation in Astro. Covers the React component, an Astro wrapper, and how the effect never loads on mobile without any explicit guards.
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That’s all for this week, Astronauts!
If you're building something on Astro, whether it's a package, a tutorial, or a write-up of something you migrated or learned, I want to hear about it.
Drop a link and description to [email protected] or DM me on X.
Catch you next Sunday,
Nathan 👋
