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# Community Call Agenda: 2024-04-30

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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!
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## Core Update - Ben

- 4.7 released last week, recap of the update
- Astro Actions are still being worked on (Stage 2 RFC)! The aim is to release something as experimental in 4.8

Ben will finish by announcing ["Astro Together"](https://lu.ma/vx2n5stv)

## RFCs progress

- Rerouting is coming in 4.8 in experimental, there's still time to give feedback: https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/10867
- Astro Env is being worked on, public variables are almost done (not released) https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/10881
- Form Actions are being worked on https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/10858
- `defineIntegration` is progressing https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/10892

### 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 - HiDeoo

Starlight [`v0.22.0`](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/releases/tag/%40astrojs%2Fstarlight%400.22.0) was released today and it's a big one!

- [Expressive Code update](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1720) to `v0.35.0` with major performance improvements
- Support for [translating the site title](https://starlight.astro.build/guides/i18n/#translate-the-site-title)
- Support for [draft pages](https://starlight.astro.build/reference/frontmatter/#draft)
- Improvements to the [Russian](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1788) and [Farsi](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1793) translations
- Dynamic support for [system color scheme changes](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1731)
- Many new [icons](https://starlight.astro.build/guides/components/#icon): `signal`, `node`, `cloudflare`, `vercel`, `netlify` and `deno`
- Support for [accessing frontmatter data](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/integrations-guide/markdoc/#access-frontmatter-from-your-markdoc-content) as a variable when using Markdoc
- [Synced tabs](https://starlight.astro.build/guides/components/#synced-tabs) support
- Many [bug fixes](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1786)

### Starlight Links

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

## Team Docs/DX

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### 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 (15 min, Florian + Alex + Guests on stage)

- Astro Tips
    - Site: https://astro-tips.dev
- New Website
    - Site: https://astrolicious.dev
    
- AstroStudio CMS
    - Blog: https://astrolicious.dev/blog/astrostudio-cms/
    - Site: https://astro-studiocms.xyz/
    - Repo: https://github.com/astrolicious/studiocms

- Astro Theme Provider
    - Blog: https://astrolicious.dev/blog/astro-theme-provider/
    - Docs: https://astro-theme-provider.netlify.app/
    - Template: https://github.com/astrolicious/astro-theme-provider-template
    - Repo: https://github.com/astrolicious/astro-theme-provider

### Astro Neighboorhood Demo (10~15 min, Luiz)

- Demo Repo: https://github.com/Fryuni/astro-neighborhood-demo

### astro-als demo (10 min, Florian)

https://github.com/florian-lefebvre/astro-als

## 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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- 📄 [Bottom drawer with Tailwind CSS and Alpinejs](https://lexingtonthemes.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-bottom-drawer-tailwind-css-and-alpinejs/) by @mike_andreuzza
- 📄 [Multistep from with Tailwind CSs and Alpinejs](https://lexingtonthemes.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-multistep-form-with-tailwind-css-and-alpinejs/) by @mike_andreuzza
- 📄 [Link shortener Astro DB](https://charleszw.com/posts/link-shortener) by @aczw
- 📄 [Blog View Counter using Astro, Svelte](https://blog.icacademy.at/blog/codelab-03) by @rbole
- 📄 [ISR and advanced caching](https://developers.netlify.com/guides/how-to-do-advanced-caching-and-isr-with-astro/) by @ascorbic.
- 📄 [PhotoSwipe in Astro](https://www.launchfa.st/blog/photoswipe-astro) by @rishirajjain
- 📄 [Talk](https://pill-astro-ultima-frontera.vercel.app/1) by @achamorro-dev
- 📺 [Blog using MDX](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99_HTrJxlM) by @CodeBrew
- 📺 [Svelte Summit Astro Apperance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJ09joGBZ4) by @sveltesociety


### Tips and Tools 
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- [Link component](https://gist.github.com/jacobdalamb/6951a5bc07c9937f2f3991614b3685bc) by @jacobdalamb
- [Netlify platform starter with Daisy UI](https://github.com/netlify-templates/astro-platform-starter) by @tomas_ba
- [Solid Dev Tools](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/846469231176056853/1234626457091964978/Screenshot_2024-04-30_at_00.png?ex=663213bd&is=6630c23d&hm=01a610006aa8fe6f2dc1d9cc66739e3ff70d1c06019b2db91076fc2cf1472641&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=2592&height=1162) by @eliancodes
 
### Templates/Themes

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- [Astro Speed](https://themepirates.gumroad.com/l/astroSpeed) by @devpirate9
- [Agency 02](https://astro.build/themes/details/agency02/) by @alpeshnakrani
- [Agency 03](https://astro.build/themes/details/agency03/) by @alpeshnakrani
- [Free themes](https://www.michaelandreuzza.com/resources/) by @mike_andreuzza

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{ url: 'https://arian-architects.github.io/projects/B%20301,%20Hari%20Nagar/', title: '@rishirajjain' },
{ url: 'https://gigantino.dev/', title: '@gigantino' },
{ url: 'https://go.czw.sh/', title: '@aczw' },
{ url: 'https://www.100mistakessoftwareengineering.com/', title: '@?' },
{ url: 'https://iwfan.site/', title: '@iwfan' },
{ url: 'https://running.supply/', title: '@coleretriever' },
{ url: 'https://www.shadizx.com/', title: '@shadizx' },
{ url: 'https://topicolist.com/', title: '@hexadecimal1337' },
{ url: 'https://ninaskonditori.com/', title: '@mike_andreuzza'},
{ url: 'https://use-virtual-cursor.hyperlaunch.com/', title: '@chrsgrrtt'},
{ url: 'https://adaliszk.io/', title: '@adaliszk'},
{ url: 'https://katrinrothe.de/indexEng/', title: '@derastatknutred'},
{ url: 'https://neuofficial.co/', title: '@b00palicious'},
{ url: 'https://aryxst.github.io/developer-portfolios', title: '@.exefer'},

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{ url: 'https://docs.ballerine.com/', title: 'ballerine-io'}, <!-- Open-Source Risk Management Infrastructure -->
{ url: 'https://barrosodavid.github.io/cs2340-project-2/', title: 'barrosodavid'}, <!-- Starlight can be used for anything: small 1 page doc for a student project of the Georgia Institute of Technology -->
{ url: 'https://unional.github.io/', title: 'unional'}, <!-- Starlight can be used for anything: blog like website for an engineer sharing their thoughts on software engineering -->
{ url: 'https://gren-lang.org/book/', title: 'gren-lang'}, <!-- A book about the Gren programming language -->

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