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If you were waiting for the full release before upgrading to Astro 7.0, your wait is over. Astro 7.0 is out of beta and into the world, bringing huge boosts to build times.
Plenty more from the ecosystem alongside it this week too.
Astro 7.0 is live and the headline is speed. The compiler has been rewritten in Rust, Markdown processing gets a new Rust pipeline, and real-world builds are up to 61% faster.
Starwind UI 2.0 ships four new components, a reworked overlay system, and Starwind Skills, a set of installable instructions for AI coding agents. The CLI now handles component search and docs too.
AI crawlers burned through 2 million Vercel requests overnight on a million-page F1 statistics site. Here's the journey from static builds and SSR to a Hetzner VPS and Cloudflare CDN.
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Tom from CloudCannon walks through migrating an Astro site to their CMS, letting Agent Skills handle the setup and configuration. Covers the full migration and getting the editing experience ready for non-technical users.
A walkthrough building an Astro blog with React islands, MDX, and Fate, a modern React data client. It's also an honest look at whether most Astro projects actually need a dedicated data layer.
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That’s everything for another week.
If you've upgraded to Astro 7.0 and have thoughts, or you've spotted something worth sharing, I'd love to hear from you at [email protected] or DM me on X.
Enjoy those faster build times!
Nathan 👋
