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+title: "What's new in Astro - February 2024"
+description: "Leap into Astro news with a bonus Februrary day!"
+publishDate: "February 29, 2024"
+authors:
+  - elian
+coverImage: "/src/content/blog/_images/whats-new-shared.webp"
+socialImage: "/src/content/blog/_images/whats-new-february-2024/og.webp"
+lang: "en"
+---
+import ShowcaseGrid from './_whats-new-components/ShowcaseGrid.astro';
+import ThemeGrid from './_whats-new-components/ThemeGrid.astro';
+
+Leap into Astro news with a bonus Februrary day!
+
+## Updates from Mission Control
+
+- We have a [new channel on Discord](https://astro.build/chat) `#events`, where you can share events happening, share when you’re live, and more.
+- We [discussed creating an `ecosystem-ci`](https://discord.com/channels/830184174198718474/1204369341642973185) to provide early warnings and automatic notifications to integration and theme authors about Astro updates including potential breaking changes.
+- We expanded the Astroverse to [daily.dev](https://dly.to/u1jkve3OtCn): updates, releases, showcase items, and more. Another way to get your Astro news and interact with the community. Visit @astrodotbuild and join our squad!
+
+## Releases
+
+Save the date: [Astro Studio](https://studio.astro.build) launches March 12, and we have a whole week of festivities planned!
+
+While you wait, catch up on Astro and Starlight core releases:
+
+- Astro [4.3](https://astro.build/blog/astro-430/), [4.4](https://astro.build/blog/astro-440/)
+- Starlight [0.18](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/releases/tag/%40astrojs%2Fstarlight%400.18.0), [0.19](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/releases/tag/%40astrojs%2Fstarlight%400.19.0), [0.20](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/releases/tag/%40astrojs%2Fstarlight%400.20.0)
+
+## Docs
+
+This month Docs added two new guide pages to docs on adding [authentication](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/authentication/) and [e-commerce](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/ecommerce/) options to your Astro project! These are two popular features that people ask about, and we wanted to provide some basic guidance to get you started.
+
+Our weekly Discord call “Talking and Doc’ing” is a chance for you to watch Team Docs work in public, jump in a shared Codespace or Gitpod Workspace, and contribute to the docs live, together. This month’s topics included:
+
+- Part two of an epic PR to make docs URL paths consistent with the locations in the sidebar settings that included:
+	- 📅 2 weeks.
+	- 🕓 4 hours of live streaming.
+	- 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 10 people in the same shared codebase at once
+	- 🗃 678 files changed.
+	- ✅ ALL CHECKS PASSED.
+- Figuring out what a Starlight `<Steps />` component might look like. Just an ordered list? We think not!
+- Exploring building in Astro's native i18n routing features to the default Starlight template.
+
+## Community
+
+### Welcome to our new Maintainers
+
+[Fryuni](https://astro.badg.es/contributor/Fryuni/), [Oliver](https://astro.badg.es/contributor/OliverSpeir/), and [liruifengv](https://astro.badg.es/contributor/liruifengv/) have joined Astro as Maintainers!
+
+Welcome! 🎉
+
+### Community Awards January
+
+- 🌟 $500 to Florian for leading and supporting our integration builders, and contributing to all aspects of the Astro project and community.
+- 🍾 $250 to Oliver for shipping features in Astro core and providing helpful community support.
+- 🎈 $250 to Kevin for consistent contributions to Starlight development
+- 🎊 $250 to Happydev for tackling several Astro code issues, fixes and improvements.
+- 🎉 $250 to Glad777 for exceptional community involvement in support and docs
+
+Check them out and learn more about the Astro Community Awards on [our community website](https://community.astro.build).
+
+## Showcase
+
+### Content
+
+Because you can never get tired of watching and reading Astro Content.
+
+- 📄 [Migrating from Gatsby to Astro](https://logarithmicspirals.com/blog/migrating-from-gatsby-to-astro/) by @binalgebraical
+- 📄 [How I use Notion and Astro to publish my monthly learnings](https://azan-n.com/projects/2024-02-08t091659138z/) by @azan_n
+- 📄 [Using Weaviate's generative search with Astro for brainstorming](https://larryhudson.io/astro-weaviate-brainstorm/) by @larryhudson
+- 📄 [Add diagrams to Starlight using D2](https://hideoo.dev/notes/starlight-add-diagrams-using-d2) by @hideoo
+- 📄 [Dynamic components - Is it worth it?](https://dev.to/marcelluscaio/dynamic-components-is-it-worth-it-28m5) by @caiomarcellus
+- 📄 [Fetching the latest YouTube videos in an Astro Component](https://techsquidtv.com/blog/astro-fetching-youtube-videos-with-rss/)
+- 📺 [Deploy an Astro static site to DigitalOcean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6t93CFnmps) by @zacksiri
+- 🎙️ [Simple Stack Streaming - Discussed on Front-end Fire](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Y7RCXFJQtUxYGNXqemFw7)		
+- 📄 [Adding Related Articles with Astro Content Collections](https://blog.codybrunner.com/2024/adding-related-articles-with-astro-content-collections/)	
+- 📺 [You Don’t know How to SSR](https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/you-dont-know-how-to-ssr) by @ema
+- 📄 [Seamles SPA Transitions Using the New View Transitions](https://semaphoreci.com/blog/view-transitions-api-astrojs)
+- 📄 [Why I choose Astro for web app development](https://ryanfurrer.com/blog/my-experience-with-astro/) by Oren Farhi
+- 📄 [My Experience with Astro](https://orizens.com/blog/why-i-chose-astro-for-web-app-dev-in-2024/) by Ryan Furrur
+- 📺 [Quoi de neuf dans Astro](https://parlons-dev.com/episodes/quoi-de-neuf-dans-astro)
+- 📄 [This Site Is Now Built with Astro](https://aqandrew.com/blog/now-built-with-astro/) by @aqandrew
+- 📺 [Get Started with Directus and Astro](https://directus.io/tv/stack-up/astro)
+- 📄 [Using Algolia with Astro Starlight](https://www.algolia.com/blog/engineering/algolia-docsearch-astro-starlight/) by @bholmesdev
+- 🎙️ [Podrocket with Eddy Vinck](https://twitter.com/podrocketpod/status/1760351149440335877)by @eddyvinck
+- 📄 [Introduction to Astro and Wordpress](https://dev.to/bngmnn/leveraging-wordpress-as-a-headless-cms-for-your-astro-website-a-comprehensive-guide-a4d) by @bngmnn
+- 📄 [Building a documentation site using Astro Starlight](https://maciekpalmowski.dev/blog/building-a-documentation-site-using-astro-starlight/) by @palmiak
+- 📄 [A talk on Islands Architecture](https://js-astro-islands-demo.netlify.app/) by @winterjoey
+- 📄 [How to create animated images with TailwindCSS and Astro](https://lexingtonthemes.com/tutorials/how-to-create-animated-images-with-tailwind-css-and-astro-js/) by @mike_andreuzza
+- 📄 [Hands-On Experience: eCommerce Store with Astro?](https://crystallize.com/blog/building-ecommerce-with-astro)
+
+### Tips & Tools
+
+The latest community-built utilities and integrations to help you build with Astro.
+
+- [Unpic](https://unpic.pics/blog/unpic-astro-image-service/) by @ascorbic.
+- [florian-lefebvre/satori-astro](https://github.com/florian-lefebvre/satori-astro)
+- [astro-clerk-auth](https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-clerk-auth) by @elefcodes
+- [Adammatthiesen/astro-commercejs](https://github.com/Adammatthiesen/astro-commercejs) by @adamm2047
+- [inline-mod-astro](https://inox-tools.vercel.app/inline-mod) by @fryuni
+- [JulianCataldo/og-images-generator](https://github.com/JulianCataldo/og-images-generator#astro-integration) by @juliancataldo
+- [BryceRussell/astro-pages](https://github.com/BryceRussell/astro-pages) by @bryceguy
+- [ktym4a/astro-page-insight](https://github.com/ktym4a/astro-page-insight) by @ktym4a
+- [kindspells/astro-sri-scp](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kindspells/astro-sri-csp) by @andreu
+- [Tiny toolbar app to show Tailwind Breakpoints](https://elk.zone/m.webtoo.ls/@[email protected]/111925333428424557)	
+- [frankstallone/astro-cube-boilerplate](https://github.com/frankstallone/astro-cube-boilerplate) by @frank_stallone
+- [KindSpells/astro-shield](https://github.com/KindSpells/astro-shield) by @castarco
+- [natemoo-re/astro-remote](https://github.com/natemoo-re/astro-remote)	by @nmoodev
+- [Generate e-mails with Astro](https://github.com/luckydye/astro-email/tree/main) by @luckydye
+
+### Themes & Templates
+
+Several new Astro themes were added & released this month. Try them out!
+
+- [Illustration based template](https://github.com/manulthanura/Illustration-Based-Portfolio) by @manulthanura
+- [Astroplate](https://astro.build/themes/details/astroplate/) by @tffarhad
+- [Quantum](https://cosmicthemes.com/themes/quantum/) by @lastchaos.
+- [event-edge.gerome.dev](https://event-edge.gerome.dev/) by @gerome.dev
+- [ScrewFast](https://github.com/mearashadowfax/ScrewFast) by @soslan
+- [MinimalStudio, theme built with Astro, TailwindCSS and Alpine](https://minimalstudio.vercel.app/) by @mike_andreuzza
+- [Resume website with TinaCMS](https://astro-resume02.vercel.app/) by @alpeshnakrani
+
+### Websites
+
+All the community member websites submitted to our Discord `#showcase` channel and featured on community calls this month.
+
+export const sites = [
+  { url: 'https://easy-csv.netlify.app/profile', title: '@christopheanfry'},
+  { url: 'https://evadecker.com/hypersensitive', title: '@for.eva.new'},
+  { url: 'https://warawul.coffee/en/', title: '@chris_origins_coffee'},
+  { url: 'https://lindakat-arcade.netlify.app/', title: '@lindakat'},
+  { url: 'https://daniell.dev/', title: '@daniellwdb'},
+  { url: 'https://heschl.dev/', title: '@joneswastaken'},
+  { url: 'https://www.benjamindorey.fr/', title: '@biommxx'},
+  { url: 'https://pro-g.eu/', title: '@biommxx'},
+  { url: 'https://hitesh.is-a.dev/', title: '@hitesh_dev'},
+  { url: 'https://www.tekac.club/humans', title: '@emptybrother7'},
+  { url: 'https://evadecker.com/design', title: '@for.eva.new'},
+  { url: 'https://joelmturner.com/', title: '@joelmturner'},
+  { url: 'https://hermes.cadens.studio/', title: '@cadens.studio'},
+  { url: 'https://barvian.me/', title: '@mbarvian'},
+  { url: 'https://www.deskpro.com/', title: '@mattheous'},
+  { url: 'https://wybm-valentine.netlify.app/', title: '@withered.flowers'},
+  { url: 'https://www.thatisrich.co.uk/', title: '@thatisrich'},
+  { url: 'https://wallcreo.com/', title: '@stan.kukucka'},
+  { url: 'https://osteopathe-le-thor.fr/', title: '@arnaud_83976'},
+  { url: 'https://dan-portoflio-v3.vercel.app/', title: '@rythmlord'},
+  { url: 'https://www.xypnox.com/blag/posts/themescura/introducing-themescura/', title: '@xypnox'},
+  { url: 'https://photosite-3cw.pages.dev/', title: '@casungo'},
+  { url: 'https://sanquirinoestudio.com.ar/', title: '@.wateredplant'},
+  { url: 'https://suplovers.co/', title: '@alejostereo'},
+  { url: 'https://gitarchived.org/', title: '@thebigbot'},
+  { url: 'https://www.arjancodes.com/', title: '@santiago6916'},
+  { url: 'https://pdx-food-weeks.vercel.app/', title: '@joelmturner'},
+  { url: 'https://www.helmerdavila.com/', title: '@dynamo_dev_99'},
+  { url: 'https://lakelimbo.github.io/', title: '@lakelimbo'},
+  { url: 'https://aperofrancophone.com/', title: '@marvinkr'},
+  { url: 'https://www.karelvo.com/', title: '@karel5743'},
+  { url: 'https://anuwong.com/', title: '@anuwong'},
+  { url: 'https://k16e.co/', title: '@k16e.co'},
+  { url: 'https://wordclues.com/', title: '@plinpod'},
+  { url: 'https://gitter.im/'},
+  { url: 'https://freestuff.dev/'},
+  { url: 'https://overlayed.dev/', title: '@hacksore'},
+  { url: 'https://5pin-talk.ca/', title: '@jbrains_'},
+  { url: 'https://upshot.dev/', title: '@khaya_zulu'},
+  { url: 'https://prodkt.cloud/', title: '@prodkt'},
+  { url: 'https://soulrest.melos.church/', title: '@cameronpak'},
+  { url: 'https://designzen.co/', title: '@frank_stallone'},
+  { url: 'https://newsletter.howd.dev/posts/01-gus-moxie/', title: '@bonniedotdev'},
+  { url: 'https://www.mickeymarse.dev/', title: '@mickeymarse'},
+  { url: 'https://mingjun.lu/blog', title: '@mingjunlu'},
+  { url: 'https://coderdiaz.com/', title: '@coderdiaz'},
+  { url: 'https://streamdal.com/', title: '@dosplatos'},
+  { url: 'https://moyadaniel.com/', title: '@rythmlord'},
+  { url: 'https://eva.town/projects/boundaries-map', title: "@for.eva.new"},
+  { url: 'https://eva.town/projects/commonplace', title: "@for.eva.new"},
+  { url: 'https://futrloggr.vercel.app/', title: '@xylis_'},
+  { url: 'https://loquierasono.democracia.com.es', title: "@aitor"},
+  { url: 'https://memoria-ten.vercel.app/', title: "@monikossa"},
+];
+
+<ShowcaseGrid items={sites} />
+
+### Starlight in the wild
+
+Take a peek at the new Starlight sites that we discovered this month.
+
+export const starlightSites = [
+{ url: 'https://codegenie.codes/', title: '@brett.codegenie_06005'},
+{ url: 'https://sloth-pipe.vercel.app/', title: 'tvswgnr]'},
+{ url: 'https://letsar.github.io/state_watcher/', title: 'letsar'},
+{ url: 'https://beta.learning.nicholasdwest.com/', title: '@ndw0009'},
+{ url: 'https://eddienubes.github.io/sagetest/', title: 'eddienubes'},
+{ url: 'https://astro-snipcart.vercel.app/', title: 'lloydjatkinson'},
+{ url: 'https://zanobijs.vercel.app/', title: 'devdroide'},
+{ url: 'https://vue-simple-dnd.netlify.app/', title: '@florian_lefebvre'},
+{ url: 'https://www.waterfox.net/', title: '@aks15501'},
+{ url: 'https://thehangedmanpub.netlify.app/', title: '@enigmalea'},
+{ url: 'https://vinoth.info/react-sketch-canvas/', title: 'vinothpandian'},
+{ url: 'https://developer.fashionunited.com/', title: 'FashionUnited'},
+{ url: 'https://onerepo.tools/', title: '@paularmstrong.dev '},
+{ url: 'https://rnr-docs.vercel.app', title: '@mrzachnugent'},
+{ url: 'https://docs-nodehive-com.vercel.app/', title: 'NETNODE AG'},
+{ url: 'https://discord-hono.luis.fun/', title: 'LuisFun'},
+];
+
+<ShowcaseGrid items={starlightSites} />
+
+*Want to be on this list next month? Post your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demos, and videos in our `#showcase` channel in [our Discord](https://astro.build/chat)!*