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Fresh releases and fresh ideas this week.
Astro 7.3 brings useful improvements for local development—and Starlight cut its JavaScript while adding more in one release.
Astro 7.3 lets you run multiple preview servers with the --ignore-lock flag, now available for both dev and preview modes. Image services and cache providers can now respect your configured log levels, and more.
Starlight now uses the browser's Popover API for mobile menus, which means your site works even if JavaScript fails to load. This release also ships Starlight as compiled JavaScript instead of TypeScript.
CMS Brew is a chat-based CMS for Astro where clients make edits through conversation instead of forms. Safe edits publish automatically; anything risky escalates back to the developer for approval.
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A hands-on guide to documentation architecture with Astro. Flavio walks through content collections, dynamic routes, automatic sidebar and navigation generation, and integrating Pagefind for static search.
@at-astro is a new integration that handles AT Protocol OAuth in Astro, giving you utilities to get an authenticated client and manage sign in and sign out flows. It's built to help developers create AppViews—applications that run on top of Bluesky's protocol.
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That's what caught my eye this week.
If you’ve found something in the Astro ecosystem that caught yours, send it my way at [email protected].
Heads up, Astro Weekly will be taking a short break whilst I’m on vacation in Orlando, Florida. Our next issue will land October 4, 2026.
See you then!
Nathan 👋
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