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You'll find a mix of practical tools and theoretical depth this week.
There's a new way to write components on the fly, an essay that walks through Astro's entire architecture from CLI to browser, plus what actually happened when some high-profile Astro sites left the framework.
A new web-based playground lets you write and test Astro components without setting up a project. Each session runs a real Astro Compiler instance, so what you build is exactly what you'd get locally.
Astro 7.2's incremental builds compare cache keys to the previous build, only re-rendering pages whose content or dependencies have actually changed, delivering huge improvements to build times on large sites.
Ever wondered what Astro does under the hood? Follow a single component from source to browser, seeing how the Rust compiler, Vite, and the server renderer work together to produce HTML and hydration.
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Sitepins is an open-source, Git-based CMS lets your entire team edit content visually while keeping full version control. Works with Astro, Next.js, Hugo, and sites built with Claude or Lovable.
When prominent Astro showcase sites switched to Next.js, PageSpeed scores changed by just a few points either direction. The real-user data, however, exposed a fundamental limitation in how we measure performance for shared origins.
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Hope you found something worth your time this week.
Have a link worth highlighting? Drop me an email at [email protected].
Until next Sunday.
Nathan 👋
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