Best of Astro — October 2023

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   Astro·3y

   Astro 3.4: Page Partials

   Astro 3.4 introduces page partials, optimized image generation, and a new experimental dev overlay. It also includes bug fixes and improvements.

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   Codrops·3y

   Animating Multi-Page Navigations with Browser View Transitions and Astro

   Learn how to implement smooth transitions between pages in Astro using View Transitions. View Transitions make navigation seamless and effortless, reducing compatibility, performance, and accessibility issues. Find out about the performance impact, browser support, and design considerations for View Transitions.

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   Astro·3y

   Astro 3.3: Picture component

   Astro 3.3 introduces a new experimental Picture component, improvements to syntax highlighting, package provenance, and general quality of life improvements. Upgrading to Astro 3.3 can be done through the package manager of choice. The new Picture component generates a picture element with multiple source elements. The Image component now supports srcset and new properties have been added to generate a srcset attribute. Astro's internal syntax highlighter library has been migrated to shikiji. NPM has introduced optional provenance attestations for improved supply-chain security and transparency. The release also includes bug fixes and other quality of life improvements.

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   Community Picks·3y

   Nuxt vs. Astro - Interactive decision helper

   A comparison between Nuxt and Astro, two tools for building websites, to help readers decide which one to use. The article discusses the rendering, content, development tools, UI frameworks, and performance of both tools.

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