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# Community Call agenda 2024-05-21

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## Introduction
Welcome!

### How to keep on top of events
- [Astro Community Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_g6re3u5gkl0mug3ktn1dibqhfk%40group.calendar.google.com) - add to your own calendar!
- opt in to the `@notify-events` Discord role
- Discord Events sidebar - click "interested" to be notified on a per-event basis!


## Core Update

### This week in core (Ben)

- [Container APIs](https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/pull/916)
    - Render Astro outside of Astro!
    - Unlocks testing, RSS feed content, and more!
    - Been on the radar for over a year!
- [React 19 actions](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/11071)
    - We're going to be the first<sup>*</sup> framework that supports all of React 19's new actions!
- Stable, stable, [everything is stable!](https://github.com/withastro/astro/milestone/15)
    - i18n domains
    - CSRF protection

### Helpful Core Links

[Astro CHANGELOG](https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/refs/heads/main/packages/astro/CHANGELOG.md) - see the latest version and what's new
[Next "Milestone"](https://github.com/withastro/astro/milestones/) - see what we expect to release in the next minor version
[Roadmap](https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/discussions/) where you can find and participate in RFC Discussions
[Contribute](https://docs.astro.build/en/contribute/) - learn how to get involved and contribute to *all* the Astro repos!


## Starlight Update

### 0.23 (Chris)

- Speed! Docs builds up to 40% faster for sites that use MDX!
- New `<details>` styling 
- Cool i18n stuff to come!
- [Current in progress PR: autogenerate sidebar labels](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1874) from Lorenzo
    - Nicer config for sidebars by providing `slug` instead of `link`
    - Bridge between full autogeneration (where you can't control the order) and having to write as much for each individual page manually
    - Will inherit some of the nice automatic Starlight magic when using autogenerate, but allow you to specify the order

### Starlight Links

[Starlight](https://starlight.astro.build)
[Starlight CHANGELOG](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/blob/main/packages/starlight/CHANGELOG.md)

## Team Docs/DX (Sarah)

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🎙️ On Talking & Doc'ing: we reviewed a Starlight PR updating the CSS for displaying tables, and also a docs PR moving some sidebar content into the footer.

It doesn't sound like much, but if it stops Sarah from doing THIS... :sweat_smile: 
![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/B1r8cEc7C.png)


🏃 We also updated Astro Docs to the latest version of Starlight and improved our build time by 40%! (Thank you, @bluwy!)


### Docs Links

[Follow @astrodocs on the Fediverse](https://m.webtoo.ls/@astrodocs/)
Learn how to contribute at [Astro Docs Docs (AD²) ](https://contribute.docs.astro.build)

## Maintainer/Guests (Demos, interviews, announcements)

### Astrolicious Hackathon (Alex)

- https://github.com/astrolicious/confstellation
    - covering mutiple weeks
    - trying to build a Conference website template
    - What Starlight is for docs, Confstellation will be for conferences
    - private repository to get started, with early members
    - the place to discuss this and participate is the [Astrolicious Discord](https://chat.astrolicious.dev/) server

### Modular Station - Inox Tools (Fryuni)

- Docs: https://inox-tools.vercel.app/modular-station
- Original demo: https://github.com/Fryuni/astro-neighborhood-demo

## Community Showcase Content (Alex)
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### Blogs/Articles/Videos etc.
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- 📺 [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/)	

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- 📄 [Contact form in Astro](https://medium.com/@surjithctly/how-to-build-a-contact-form-in-astro-728f68c997db) by @surjithctly
- 📄 [Thank you Astro](https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/posts/how-astro-changed-my-web-life/) by @lukealexdavis
- 📄 [Merge Blog and Website](https://cassidoo.co/post/blog-website-baby/) by @cassidoo
- 📄 [GuestBook behind the scenes](https://eva.town/posts/design-outside-the-computer) by @for.eva.new
- 📄 [Structure Data in Starlight](https://jamcomments.com/posts/structured-data-with-starlight/) by @alexmacarthur.

### Tips and Tools
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- [GitHub Card](https://github.com/vaporvee/astro-github-component) by @vaporvee
- [Astro Express](https://github.com/patheticGeek/astro-express) by @pathetic_geek
- [Starlight Multi Sidebar](https://github.com/lorenzolewis/starlight-multi-sidebar) by @lorenzolewis
- [Astro MC](https://github.com/MatthiesenXYZ/astro-mcserverstatus) by @adamm2047

### Templates/Themes

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- [Quartiere](https://lexingtonthemes.com/info/quartiere/) by @mike_andreuzza
- [Beginner Astro Starter Kit](https://github.com/BuckyBuck135/Beginner-Astro-v4-Starter-Kit) by @buckybuck
- [bSaaS](https://web3templates.com/templates/bsaas-business-saas-startup-website-template) by @surjithctly
- [Astro Blog v4](https://astro-blog-v4.vercel.app/) by @judahsullivan
- [Portfolio](https://github.com/saminnet/astro-simple-portfolio) by @saminnet

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{ url: 'https://patheticgeek.dev/', title: '@pathetic_geek'},
{ url: 'https://eva.town/guestbook', title: '@for.eva.new'},
{ url: 'https://anandubabu.web.app/', title: '@anandubabu'},
{ url: 'https://design.eva.town/', title: '@for.eva.new'},
{ url: 'https://nnisarg.in/', title: '@nnisarggada'},
{ url: 'https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms', title: '@sebbbbbbbbbbbbbbb'},
{ url: 'https://cityeditionstudio.co.uk/', title: '@jonoces'},
{ url: 'https://wehoma.de/', title: '@clausinhooo'},
{ url: 'https://jinsupark.com/', title: '@jinsupark'},
{ url: 'https://www.danielrosehill.com/', title: '@danielrosehill'},
{ url: 'https://kafkaesque.blog/post/updated-israel-map/', title: '@jacobweinbren'},
{ url: 'https://integratn-io-astro.netlify.app/', title: '@boboysdadda'},
{ url: 'https://www.trustyourskill.com/', title: '@ninuz'},
{ url: 'https://new-portfolio-hxso.vercel.app/', title: '@aline_grianti'},
{ url: 'https://ederico.dev/', title: '@edericogames'},
{ url: 'https://oliverspeir.dev/garden/', title: '@oliverspeir'},
{ url: 'https://aloui.co/', title: '@aytef'},
{ url: 'https://drwrct.de/', title: '@derastatknutred'},

### Starlight in the wild

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{ url: https://navispatial.github.io/geospatial-v1/, title: '@?'},
{ url: https://ratatui.rs/, title: '@?'},
{ url: https://nx-sonarqube.dev/, title: '@?'},
{ url: https://www.niceshare.site/, title: '@?'},
{ url: https://v4.styledictionary.com/, title: '@?'},

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