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To our US readers, hope the July 4th celebrations were good ones.
This week's issue has plenty going on too, starting with a build pipeline that's now twice as fast, plus a massive migration story, and a clever take on related content in Astro.
Coding in Public breaks down why Astro 7 arrived so soon after v6, thanks to Vite 8 and a new Rust-based Rolldown bundler. Plus a gotcha that could quietly break your markup the moment you upgrade.
A redesign of a Polish university's platform ditched a React-heavy Next.js setup for Astro SSR, centralising a messy GraphQL layer and adding aggressive caching along the way.
Phil Nash built an Astro integration that creates vector embeddings for your content collections and surfaces genuinely similar posts, no manual tagging or frontmatter wrangling required.
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Astro 7's new Rust-based compiler and Vite 8 took one 743-page site from 103 seconds to 47 seconds locally, and from roughly 7 minutes to 2 on Cloudflare Pages.
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That's everything I've got for you this week.
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