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Astro Weekly #75
First-party font support coming to Astro, build an app with Prisma, behind the scenes of Astro docs with GitHub
Nathan Lawson
March 23, 2025
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Hello, Astronauts!
Your weekly Astro update has landed!
This week, we’re talking fonts, databases, and docs. First-party font optimization is on the horizon—join the Font API bash on Discord!
We’ll also explore building an app with Prisma and take a deep dive into Astro’s documentation philosophy on GitHub’s Open Source Friday.
Let’s get started! 🚀
What’s new with Astro 🗞️
Ain’t no party like first-party font support
No major Astro news this week, but mark your calendars for the Font API Bash on the Astro Discord this Thursday (March 21)!
A bold new look for fonts in Astro 🔠
A recent RFC proposes built-in font optimization for Astro, making it easier to self-host and efficiently load fonts. The goal? Reduce layout shifts, optimize loading, and provide better defaults for modern web projects.
Check out the Stage 3 RFC for further technical details, and don’t miss the Font API Bash to join the discussion and share your thoughts.
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Astro Community 🧑🚀
Build an app with Prisma and Astro △
Astro is best known for building content-driven websites, but it’s also a powerful choice for data-rich applications.
In this video, learn how to integrate Prisma with Astro using a PostgreSQL database, and how to call Prisma Client from both a server-rendered page and an API route.
Open Source Fridays with Astro 🎙️
GitHub’s ‘Open Source Friday’ highlights the creators, maintainers, and contributors who keep the open-source ecosystem thriving.
This week, Astro core maintainer and docs lead, Sarah Rainsberger, joined the show to share insights into Astro’s approach to documentation.
What else 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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Astro on X 💫
What’s happening on Twitter X this week…
Just asking your terminal to make a project feels like the future of `create` CLIs (@warpdotdev here).
@astrodotbuild has debated which questions to include in our CLI for YEARS. What if you could just... say what you want?
— Ben Holmes (@BHolmesDev)
4:41 PM • Mar 19, 2025
Direct link for web version:
https://x.com/BHolmesDev/status/1902400104088183199
Astro Showcase 🤩
Check out these impressive projects built with Astro!
That’s all for this week, Astronauts! 🚀
Do you have something to share with your fellow Astronauts in next week’s issue? Reach out to me at [email protected] or DM on X.
See you next Sunday!
– Nathan 👨🚀