What's new in Astro - December 2025

Some exciting news from around the Astro ecosystem this month, including:

Updates from Mission Control
Latest releases
Astro Adopters
Weird Wide Web
Cosmic Canvas
Community updates
Reading List
Watch Party
Tips & Tools
Themes & Templates
Site Showcase
Starlight in the wild

Let’s dive right into it!

Updates from Mission Control

🚀 Astro v6 alpha release

Latest releases

Minor releases introduce new features and improvements. Pre-releases introduce breaking changes, stabilize features, and provide improvements. Check out what’s new!

Astro 6.0-alpha - an early alpha release of Astro v6 and sneak peek of the v5 -> v6 upgrade guide draft if you’re adventurous enough to try it!

Astro Adopters

From Chrome to the Sorbonne, some of the biggest names you know are using Astro!

See more companies using Astro in our site showcase, and explore Astro for corporate or enterprise use with one of our agency partners!

Weird Wide Web

Some sites from the last month that show off what you can do with Astro that are quirky, innovative, inspiring, or just plain fun!

Find a partner and challenge them to a game of Othello! (And if you’re curious, take a look at the source code)
Tally - Word Counter is a free, open-source, distraction-free online tool to count the number of characters, words, paragraphs, and lines in your text in real time. Choose your language, options, and even theme… then hit that word count!
Need a smart looking image for blog posts or social sharing? Release Image Generator create beautiful, customizable images with patterns and text. Perfect for professional-looking announcements!

Cosmic Canvas

Didn’t think you could do that with Astro? These stunning sites with spectacular visuals and smooth animations prove you can!

Community

Astro Team News

Core maintainer Reuben Tier spoke about Astro Islands at React Advanced London 2025 and Navigating Islands of Interactivity is now available to the public!

What happens when you revisit code you’ve written… with someone who’s never seen it before? The 3-hour live session Astro Refactoring with core maintainer Florian Lefebvre and guest refactorer J. B. Rainsberger is now available for rewatch on YouTube.

Play

Content

Here’s what caught our attention this month:

Learn why Astro outperformed Next.js for the Tasrie IT Services site rebuild.
See how Shuvo Anirban Roy succeeded Building a Motion-Heavy Astro + Svelte Portfolio (and Still Scoring 100/100 Lighthouse).
Rishi Raj Jain walks through Implementing Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) in Astro with Cloudflare KV

Because you can never get tired of Astro, here’s even more community content!

Migration Stories

How-to Articles

Find these and all how-to articles from previous monthly blog posts at Astro Tips!

… and more!

Watch Party

Be sure to follow Astro’s official YouTube channel for content from the team!

Astro on demand

Grab your popcorn and make a playlist of your faves! 🍿

Tips & Tools

The latest community-built utilities and integrations to help you build with Astro. 🛠

Astro Auto Load - Automatic component-level data loading for Astro SSR.
Astro Content Viewer - A Dev Toolbar app for Astro that visualizes your content collections, Zod schemas, and associated variables.
Astro Dynamic Component - An Astro integration that enables dynamic component imports with glob patterns and client directives support.
Astro Shortlinks - Automatically create shortlinks for your Astro site.
Astro Tips - Beautiful, customizable tip and notice blocks for Astro with 18 built-in styles and auto dark mode support.
Astro Compress - A powerful compression integration for static assets in Astro.
🌟 Starlight GitHub Stats - A Starlight plugin to display GitHub repository statistics (stars, forks, and latest version) in the header of your documentation site.
Simple Tips - A simple and easy-to-use Astro integration for creating beautiful tooltips in Markdown and MDX files.
Astro Speed Measure - Measure Astro build performance end-to-end. Wraps integrations and Vite plugins, aggregates per-page and asset timings, and emits human, JSON, or HTML reports.
EdgeOne Astro Adapter - An adapter that allows you to deploy your Astro site to EdgeOne Pages.
Astro Pirsch Proxy - An Astro integration that exposes a Pirsch analytics proxy.
Auto Param Astro - Astro integration that adds configured query parameters to external links at build time.
Astro SEO - SEO component for Astro with full TypeScript support.
Astro Deck - Command deck for Astro - Admin hub with CMS, AI content generator, and developer tools.
sweetcorn - JavaScript image dithering tools for Sharp. Turn smooth pixels into crunchy kernels.
Astro Content AI Translator - Astro integration for AI-powered content translation using OpenAI.
CMS Marker - An Astro integration that automatically marks HTML elements with unique identifiers and generates a manifest mapping content to source files and line numbers. Perfect for building CMS editors that need to track where content originates in your codebase.
Astro Click to Source - An Astro integration for Alt+Click to open source files in your editor during development.
ez i18n - Cookie-based i18n for Astro + Vue + React. No URL prefixes, reactive language switching.
Astro Marp - An Astro integration that transforms .marp Markdown slide sources into optimized presentation pages with full asset pipeline integration and server-side Mermaid diagram rendering.
Astro NocoDB - An Astro loader package that integrates NocoDB data into Astro content collections.
Spectre UI Astro - First‑class Astro layer for Spectre UI. Typed, SSR‑friendly Astro components (Button, Card, Input and more) that wrap Spectre UI’s classes and tokens.
Astro Shield - An Astro integration to enhance your website’s security with SubResource Integrity hashes, Content-Security-Policy headers, and other techniques.
Writenex Astro - Visual editor for Astro content collections - WYSIWYG editing for your Astro site.
Dynamic Storage Interface - Reusable Astro components for cloud storage file management. Currently implements S3-compatible storage providers (AWS S3, Backblaze B2, MinIO, etc.).
Bejamas UI - Astro-Native Building Blocks for Modern Design Systems.
Vault CMS - Use Obsidian as a content management system for your Astro website.
Pageel - A powerful, client-side Content Management System (CMS) for Astro and Next.js for managing Markdown/MDX content and images directly on GitHub, Gitea, or Gogs repositories.
Astroscope - A collection of Astro packages to make production-ready applications: HTTP proxy for Astro SSR, Open Telemetry support, extended CSRF protection, and lifecycle hooks for Astro SSR (startup/shutdown) to run initialization and cleanup code for your Astro server.
Photosuite - A simple yet feature-rich image integration that integrates lightbox, EXIF data, path resolution, and more into a single, zero-config package.
Astro Spearly - An integration that makes it easy to use the Spearly CMS REST API with Astro.
Astro GraphQL - An Astro content loader for GraphQL endpoints. Fetch data from any GraphQL API and use it as Astro content collections.
Astro Env Bun - An Astro integration to add .env types defined using envField to Bun’s env.
Storybook Astro - Storybook framework for Astro components. Render .astro files directly in Storybook with full support for props, controls, and automatic source code generation.
Astro IndexNow - An Astro integration that automatically submits all built pages to IndexNow after each build, helping search engines discover updates faster.
Expressive Code Collapsible - A plugin for Expressive Code that adds collapsible functionality to code blocks, automatically collapsing long code with expand/collapse controls.
Leaflet Loader Astro - Includes both a build-time and live loader for fetching Leaflet document records from your personal data server to then be used on your Astro site.
Astro Grab is a dev-only tool that helps you quickly locate and grab source code from your Astro components. Simply hold Cmd+G (Mac) or Ctrl+G (Windows/Linux) for one second, then click any element to copy its source snippet to your clipboard.

… and some built with Astro!

Logment is a performance-focused release notes and changelog software to help individuals publish product and project updates to their users.

Themes & Templates

Several new Astro themes were added to the Astro theme directory this month. Get a jump start on a fresh new project by starting with a theme!

Showcase

Looking for even more inspiration? See all the community member websites submitted to the Astro showcase this month. Submit your site built with Astro!

Starlight in the wild

It’s always exciting to stumble across more docs built with Starlight. Here’s what our community noticed this month:

That’s a wrap! 👋

Thanks for another great month, and a great year! In 2026, we’re looking forward to another Year in Review guest post from Shinya Fujino, an active Astro community member and contributor, so stay tuned for a look back on the year that was.

Want to be in this post next month? Share your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in the #showcase channel in our Discord and/or tag us on social media!

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