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Argentina and Spain are contesting the World Cup final right now, and this issue is scheduled to land squarely in your half-time scroll.
Astro 7.1 shipped this week with real control over your builds, and more. Here’s five links worth your time before the second half kicks off.
Astro 7.1 adds finer CSP control, flexible pagination URLs, concurrent dev servers, and memory optimization for large content collections.
Astro started as a bet against shipping bloated JavaScript. Five years later, Cloudflare's backing and a consolidating ecosystem prove it was right. This video explains why Astro went from alternative to the obvious choice.
Hans built a client portal that signs people in via magic link and streams live invoices from Moneybird's API, storing no data. It's a case study in what Astro's server-side rendering makes possible when you treat your existing tools as the database.
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Amaan hit Cloudflare's bundle limit and had to completely rethink his architecture. This post breaks down real serverless decisions—when to build versus when to load, how to work within constraints, and patterns that work on any budget.
Most Markdown libraries treat indentation as code blocks, forcing you to write ugly, unindented components. A new utility fixes that problem and works across Astro, React, Vue, and Svelte.
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That's it from me this week.
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Enjoy the rest of the final, whichever way it goes.
Nathan 👋
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