October 2024
The Future of the Web is Local First | ViteConf 2024
Why use a backend when you can use a client sqlite database ? In this quick demo, Ben shows how to install and use a full sqlite database directly from the browser with Astro.
Why use a backend when you can use a client sqlite database ? In this quick demo, Ben shows how to install and use a full sqlite database directly from the browser with Astro.
Get a preview of Astro new features in its future V5 version. Content layers, server island, typed env vars.. Its all there.
A simple way to create a table of contents in Astro.
With this new feature, the Astro team breaks again the frontier between CSR and SSR. Server Island allows you to dynamically fetch portions of you page directly on the server. Discover this breakthrough with a comparison of the Edge feature from Vercel.
Astro evolves pretty fast, and in this new release, we have performances improving at build, a new env module to manage your variables with a zod schema, and container api who allows to export components into strings. You can now, for exemple, use react component directly in a elixir page with an island. Very useful for non javascript developers.
Great live coding during the last astro conference about the new server action feature. Discover how to create forms with validation, error management, type safety, progressive enhancement, and reactivity. I can't wait to test that !
Few tricks to improve your website performances and loading time. You know probably know some of them (maybe even of all them), but a small reminder times to times never hurts
How to store datas in astro ? By using React Query and Nanostores ! Little demo on how to implement this tools in Astro and and improve your islands.
New month, new astro feature get released.. This time astro introduce server actions. From your SSR or CSR page, you can now build a form and pass on submit an astro server action who will create a new endpoint in your server to validate and execute the function you'll define. A very important piece to manage forms is coming, but only in an experimental mode for now, so don’t use it in production yet.
Because creating documentation is always long and fastidious, Astro just released Starlight, a new tool to create amazing technical documentations quickly and easily. Be careful watching this video, you could end up wanting doing some docs for your next project..
New version of astro with manual routing strategy for internationalization, experimental support for CSRF protection in SSR and cookies improvements.
Its no secret that i love Astro, but implementing reactivity with CSR elements can sometimes be a little overkill. Using HTMX solves this problem by adding some reactivity in our pages without the need of an ui framework.
This video delves into the rising popularity of Astro as a favored option in 2024, emphasizing its streamlined development process and user-friendly features. It outlines how Astro simplifies web development with its straightforward setup and functionality, making it a standout choice for developers.
Astro introduces a new database hosting solution, based on SQLite & Turso. Installation and usage are extremely simple under Astro with a free tier limited to 1GB of data, 1 billion read operations, and 1 million write operations.
Description of layouts and comparison of their usage under react-router, Next.js & Astro.
A bit of backend in this frontend world. Quite detailed discovery of the framework with the author's point of view. Because I like to spoil, Conclusion: Should you use Astro? => I think so.
His predictions for the React ecosystem this year. Guest stars: Astro, Biome, Trpc & Tanstack router. It could be summarized in one word: Typescript