Astro Weekly #73

Accessible Astro components with Starwind UI, animate your Astro project with Motion, add authentication with Azure Static Web Apps

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Nathan Lawson
March 09, 2025

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Hello, Astronauts!

Today, we’ve got a first look at an exciting new Astro component library.

Plus, learn how to add smooth animations to Astro with Motion, and explore Astro Integrations with help from core maintainer, Florian Lefebvre.

Let’s dive in! 🚀

What’s new with Astro 🗞️

What’s new with you?

Astro February recap 🧢

No major Astro news this week—so why not take a moment to catch up on everything that dropped in February?

  • ✨ Astro 5.3 - faster page rendering, easier setup for experimental sessions

  • ✨ Astro 5.4 - remote image optimization in Markdown

  • ✨ Starlight 0.32 - New route data middleware, and more!

From powerful new features in Astro 5.3 and 5.4, to exciting updates for Starlight, catch up on last month’s highlights.

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Introducing Starwind UI 🌟

Meet Starwind UI—a set of powerful, open-source, accessible components for your Astro projects styled with Tailwind CSS v4.

With its intuitive CLI, you can drop fully customizable components directly into your projects, keeping full control over the code.

Motion in the Astrosphere

Add animations to Astro with Motion 📽️

Netlify’s latest guide explores how to bring animations to Astro using Motion, a lightweight, performant animation library.

By combining Motion with Astro, you can create smooth, high-performance animations with minimal effort, while keeping JavaScript bloat to a minimum.

What caught my interest this week 🤓

Check out these great posts from the Astro Community ↓

If you have something awesome you’d like to share with the Astro community, you can reach me at [email protected] or via DM on X

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That’s everything we have for another week! 🚀

Built something awesome with Astro? Share it with Astro Weekly! Reach out to me at [email protected] or DM on X.

Until next time, Astronauts.

– Nathan 👨‍🚀