Best of Astro — March 2024

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   Astro + Volar = 💖

   Astro has migrated its language server to Volar, resulting in code reduction and improved developer experience. Astro is giving a $10,000 grant to the Volar team. The grant will benefit the wider ecosystem as Volar is already used by Vue and MDX.

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   Astro 4.5

   Astro 4.5 is now available! This release improves the developer experience with a new Dev Audit UI that allows developers to automatically identify site performance and accessibility issues during development. Other highlights include improved view transitions, upgraded syntax highlighting with Shiki 1.0, multi-CDN asset prefixing, and experimental features like JSON schemas for data collections and a new script detection algorithm.

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   The Astro Developer Portal

   Astro has launched the Developer Portal, a platform for theme authors to submit, manage, and promote their themes built for Astro. The old setup was time-consuming and inefficient, but the new solution allows theme creators to upload, update, and manage their themes easily. The Astro team also used Astro Studio and Astro DB to test and improve the system.

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   What's new in Astro - March 2024

   Astro had updates in March 2024, including the launch of Astro DB and the Astro Developer Portal. New documentation pages were added, and community award winners were announced for February. Several new Astro themes and community member websites were showcased.

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