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# Community Call Agenda: 2024-04-09

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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) - never miss an event!
- opt in to `@notify-events` (and/or `-updates` for releases, `-announcements` for general announcements)
- Also all calendar entries available in the Discord Events sidebar. Click "interested" to be notified on a per-event basis.


## Core Update - Matthew or Ben
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- Quick recap of 4.5 with help of Blog post which was published during launch week

- 4.6 is coming up
    - First release since launch week (4 weeks already!)
    - Toolbar positionning is coming (bottom left / center / right)
    - Adds a data attribute to pre elements on the Code component
    - Adds options when deleting cookies
    - i18n manual routing: pretty big feature. makes it more customizable by letting you handle routing yourself
    - starlight supporting core i18n soon
    - csrf protection support being worked on
    - upgrade minimum node version following a policy version update (will solve a few sharp issues)

- Ben talked about roadmap proccess and showed his form action discussion

### The Astro Technology Company news 

(Someone give an intro re: difference between Astro open source project TATC -- Sarah has written on Discord about this publicly a few times)

https://twitter.com/matthewcp/status/1777395439605620810
BEN: Can we share your promotion, too??? **(CWO???)**

### 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

### Bens Cloudflare demo

- Explains the runtime feature of adapter v10
- Build a Soundboard
- https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/discussions/871
- `simple-form`
- https://github.com/bholmesdev/womp-with-studio

## Starlight Update

### Releases

#### 0.21.4

- Support for custom titles in nested asides
- Fixed a bug passing translations to Expressive Code

#### 0.21.5 (today)

- Fixes translations for single-language sites using a locale prefix
- Fixes an accessibility bug in the `<Tabs>` component
- Fixes some TypeScript errors
- Adds an icon for the Apple Pkl file format

### Support for hybrid builds is coming

- https://github.com/expressive-code/expressive-code/pull/187
- https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1720

### Starlight Links

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

## Talking & Doc'ing
(every Thursday, 8 a.m. ET)

On last week's Talking & Doc'ing we . . . 
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https://m.webtoo.ls/@astrodocs/112235457237278697

### 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)

### Enabling View Transitions for a Starlight Site :handbag: :sparkles: (Martin)

Have you ever wished your Starlight website had a little more SPA-like look and feel? The Bag of Tricks for Astro's View Transitions includes support for enabling view transitions when navigating through Starlight pages! 

http://events-3bg.pages.dev/jotter/starlight/
- animations!
- sounds!

### Astro Integration Kit (Florian)

- What's new since last time (a billion breaking changes): [changelog](https://github.com/florian-lefebvre/astro-integration-kit/blob/main/package/CHANGELOG.md#070)
- Interested in live coding? And what?
- What's next
    - `defineIntegration` being migrated to `astro` / `@astrojs/kit`
    - Write tests and guides

### Astro When & other inox-tools updates (Luiz)

- https://inox-tools.vercel.app/astro-when
- Demo time
- How does it fit in Astro:
  - [Skipping middleware on static/prerendered routes](https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/discussions/867)
  - [Middleware on request-time for prerendered routes](https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/discussions/869)

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unless we make the enum non-exhaustive.
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### Astro Theme Provider (Bryce)
- [Introduction](https://github.com/BryceRussell/astro-theme-provider)
- Quick demo (< 5min)
- Announce as part of Astrolicious / Call for help

### Inter-integration API proposal (Luiz)

- [The Proposal](https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/discussions/884)

### Astro Conf

Check out the Discord thread where we're asking for your feedback on what Astro Conf could/should look like! 

There are 3 questions for you to answer, including: If Astro conf did _____ I would absolutely cancel any existing plans to make sure I watched! Give us some creative fill in the blanks there!

Thread link: https://discord.com/channels/830184174198718474/1204452872666882069



## 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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- 📄 [Astro DB: Migrating my analytics data from Vercel Postgres](https://www.thomasledoux.be/blog/astro-db-migrating-analytics-postgres) by @tledoux
- 📄 [The View Transitions API](https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-view-transition-api/) by @cassidoo
- 📄 [Astro + PhotoSwipe](https://dev.to/petrovicz/astro-photoswipe-549a) by @Petrovicz
- 📄 [Fetching Latest YouTube Videos with RSS](https://techsquidtv.com/blog/astro-fetching-youtube-videos-with-rss/) by ?
- 📄 [Thoughtworks 2024 Technology Rader](https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/languages-and-frameworks/summary/astro) by thoughtworks
- 📄 [How to use Astro-Font](https://banneryear.notion.site/How-to-Use-Astro-Font-to-Optimize-Local-Font-Loading-in-Astro-and-Tailwind-Projects-d5ddc5f4e13e4182b81208f81a0c61ff) by ?
- 📄 [Step-by-step guide to a custom newsletter form with Astro, React, and ConvertKit](https://www.robcipolla.co.uk/blog/step-by-step-guide-to-building-a-custom-newsletter-subscription-form-with-astro-react-and-convertkit) by @robcipolla
- 📄 [Django to Astro: Migrating a Django Portfolio to Astro.js](https://blogthedata.com/post/migrating-portfolio-from-django-to-astro-js/) by @jsolly
- 📄 [How to create a Tab component with Tailwind CSS and AlpineJS](https://lexingtonthemes.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-tab-component-with-tailwind-css-and-alpinejs/) by @mike_andreuzza
- 📄 [How to create a Theme toggle with Tailwind CSS and AlpineJS](https://lexingtonthemes.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-theme-toggle-with-tailwind-css-and-alpine-js/) by @mike_andreuzza
- 📄 [How to deploy Astro to AWS Elastic Beanstalk](https://www.launchfa.st/blog/deploy-astro-aws-elastic-beanstalk) by @rishirajjain

### Tips and Tools 
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- https://github.com/hkbertoson/astro-turnstile by @chaosbite
    - a simple way to add a turnstile to your Astro site
 
### Templates/Themes

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    - Some additional information for the community call about project 
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- https://astro.build/themes/details/agency02/ by @alpeshnakrani


### Personal/Professional/Project Sites
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{ url: 'https://www.siddharth.codes', title: '@siddharthsuresh'},
{ url: 'https://e-csoport.hu/', title: '@petrovicz'},
{ url: 'https://vrtuedigital.com/', title: '@nenadvr'},
{ url: 'https://teneightstudios.net/', title: '@hallux'},
{ url: 'https://space.rolandfranke.nl/' title: '@rol4nd909'},
{ url: 'https://www.sweenystudio.com/', title: '@mac.dev'},
{ url: 'https://www.sobstvennoai.dev/', title: '@soslan117'},
{ url: 'https://sbirb.netlify.app/', title: '@sarah11918'},
{ url: 'https://shankarux.com/', title: '@shankarux'},
{ url: 'https://portfolio.quinck.io/', title: '@samuvello'},
{ url: 'https://vanitysuds.com/', title: '@e92jonah'},
{ url: 'https://textquery.app/tools/visualize/', title: '@ShubhamJain'},
{ url: 'https://lets-play-alpha.netlify.app/', title: '@ryanjames1729'},
{ url: 'https://www.launchfa.st/free-tools/markdown-live-preview-generator', title: '@rishirajjain'},
{ url: 'https://deno.re/', title: '@boywithkeyboard'},
{ url: 'https://faith.tools/', title: '@cameronpak'},

### Starlight in the wild

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{ url: 'https://docs.fontawesome.com/', title: 'Fontawesome'},
{ url: 'https://schematics.pbuilder.dev/frameworks/astro/', title: 'Schematic Docs'},
{ url: 'https://schalkneethling.github.io/html-comprehensive-guide/', title: '@schalkneethling'},

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