Astro Weekly #88

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Happy Sunday, Astronauts!

Astro 5.10 has landed — and it’s a big one!

Fittingly, this week also turned into a bit of an image deep dive.

Chris from Coding in Public shares how to fix the three most common image problems in Astro, there’s a guide on optimizing images from Contentful, and we’ve got a walkthrough on building a secure file upload system with Cloudinary.

If your media pipeline needs a tune-up, this is the issue for you.

Let’s dive in! 🚀

What’s new with Astro 🗞️

Fresh features, updates, and announcements. The latest from Astro HQ!

Astro 5.10 goes live 📹

Astro 5.10 is here—and it’s all about real-time content and better performance.

This release stabilizes responsive images, introduces experimental live content collections for runtime data fetching, and improves CSP and Cloudflare Worker support.

Here’s what’s new in Astro 5.10:

• 🧪 Live content collections: Fetch data at runtime from APIs, CMSs, and databases. No rebuilds required.

• 🖼️ Responsive images: Now stable! Includes layout options, priority loading, and precise cropping.

• 🔐 CSP upgrades: Generate CSP headers on prerendered pages via Netlify or Vercel adapters.

• 🌩️ Custom Cloudflare Workers entrypoints: Add Durable Objects, queues, and more to your Astro worker setup.

To upgrade, run npx @astrojs/upgrade or check the full Astro 5.10 release post for all the details.

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Astro Community 🧑‍🚀

Spotlight on what’s shining in the Astroverse.

Build a secure file upload system in Astro 🔐

Need to accept user uploads in your Astro site? Emmanuel John walks through building a secure, scalable media upload system using Cloudinary.

The article covers how to integrate Cloudinary’s SDK with Astro’s SSR mode for safe uploads—without giving up Astro’s static-first benefits.

Fix the 3 biggest problems with images in Astro 🖼️

Astro images not pulling their weight? Chris from Coding in Public shares an advanced guide to making images in Astro faster, sharper, and more efficient.

Chris walks through practical fixes for common pain points using Astro’s built-in tools, the Unpic image service, and the powerful Cloudinary integration.

Spotted in the Astroverse 🪐

A few standout posts from the community that grabbed my attention!

• 💾 Cache OpenAI Embeddings with SQLite for Low-Cost Astro Builds

• 📝 An Astro loader that fetches and parses Medium RSS feeds

• 🏞️ Optimizing Images from Contentful in Astro

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 a wrap for this week!

If you’ve got a killer Astro site, clever tutorial, or just something fun in the works, I’d love to see it. Reach out at [email protected] or slide into my DMs on X.

See you next week when we recap the Astro Solstice Festival!

– Nathan 👨‍🚀