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title: This week in Astro - 02-02-24
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# This week in Astro

## 🚀 Astro core

Astro 4.3 released, which includes:

- Experimental: Add domain support for i18n
- More control over your HTML file output
- Add ComponentProps type utility
- Better support for relative images in Markdown

For full details, read [the blogpost](https://astro.build/blog/astro-430/) or [changelog on GitHub](https://github.com/withastro/astro/releases/tag/astro%404.3.0)

### :starlight: Starlight 0.17 released

- [New Expressive Code `<Code/>` component](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1395) and [improved support for `ec.config.mjs` configuration files](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1437) by @hippotastic
- [New `disable404Route` config option](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1389) by Connor 
- [Fix rare `font-family` issue](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1420) by Abdelhalim
- [Fix Pagefind search result links when using `trailingSlash: 'never'`](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/pull/1365/files) by @kevinzunigacuellar 

Read more in the [Release Notes](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/releases/tag/%40astrojs%2Fstarlight%400.17.0)

## :books: Astro Docs

On this week's Talking & Doc'ing: Part 2 -- the re-re-organizing! 2 weeks. 4 hours of streaming. 678 files changed. ALL CHECKS PASSED.  :white_check_mark:  Thanks to everyone's collaboration in chat and in the shared Gitpod Workspace, we now have URLs that match the sidebar categories! (And, no more `/concepts/` AND `/core-concepts/`) Update your bookmarks! Or don't, because we also successfully got all the redirects, too. :muscle:

## 📧 Astro Newsletter

Our first newsletter went out this week!

You can read it back online here: https://buttondown.email/withastro/archive/the-astro-post-january-2024-edition/

Missed it? Sign up here: https://astro.build/newsletter/signup

## 👀 Showcase

Here's a selection of items shared on the Community Call this week!

### 📹 Content

- 📄 [Using HTMX with Astro Partials](https://blog.trevfox.dev/posts/htmx-and-astro-partials/) by @vxoblope
- 📄 [Sending mails with Astro and Nodemailer](https://oliverspeir.dev/garden/nodemailer/) by @oliverspeir
- 📄 [Create a web application with Astro and Drupal](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gambinovincenzo_create-a-web-application-with-the-astrojs-activity-7156645583347236865-YLDR/) by @vincenzogambino
- 📄 [Astro API tutorial](https://www.ceos3c.com/astro/astro-api-tutorial/)
- 📄 [Astro Kwesforms with Rive](https://www.sitepoint.com/astro-kwesforms-rive/)
- 📄 [Take a Qwik break from React with Astro](https://thenewstack.io/take-a-qwik-break-from-react-with-astro/)

### 💡 Tips & Tools

- [Unpic: Astro image service](https://unpic.pics/blog/unpic-astro-image-service/) by @ascorbic.
- [Lucia 3.0](https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia) by @pilcrowonpaper
- [igloczek/astro-electron](https://github.com/Igloczek/astro-electron) by @igloczek.
- [astro-devtoolbar-tailwind](https://github.com/futurethemes/astro-devtoolbar-tailwind/tree/main) by @Jumper#8174
- [The Bag of Tricks for View Transitions](https://events-3bg.pages.dev/) by @martrapp

### 🛝 Themes & Templates

- [Astro spotlight theme (WIP)](https://github.com/ak0r/astro-spotlight) by @androidak0r
- [Mallen](https://github.com/hyddeos/Mallen) by @.hydde
- [CaribeSky](https://github.com/AlejandroMar/CaribeSky) by @alejostereo
- [drab](https://github.com/rossrobino/drab) by @rossrobino

### 🧑‍💻 Personal Sites

- [vighnesh153.dev](https://vighnesh153.dev/) by @vighnesh153
- [netlify.com](https://www.netlify.com/)		
- [corvu.dev](https://corvu.dev/docs/) by @giyomoon
- [fig.moinulmoin.com](https://fig.moinulmoin.com/) by @moinulmoin
- [candost.blog](https://candost.blog/)	by @_candost
- [flurium.com](https://www.flurium.com/) by @koshchei.
- [v-mokhun.com](https://www.v-mokhun.com/)	by @v.mokhun
- [2024.lincolnhack.org](https://2024.lincolnhack.org/)	by @bobson6345
- [xstatebyexample.com](https://xstatebyexample.com/) by @devessier
- [openstove.org](https://openstove.org/) by @soslan117
- [ktym4a.me](https://ktym4a.me/) by @ktym4a_01942
- [lorefrog.com](https://lorefrog.com/) by @evanfuture
- [bloombacker.com](https://bloombacker.com/) by @jumpingback

### 🐻 Starlight in the wild

- [dotenv.run](https://dotenv.run/) by [chihab](https://github.com/chihab) on GitHub
- [Nacos](https://nacos.io/docs/latest/what-is-nacos/) by [Alibaba Open Source](https://opensource.alibaba.com/)
- [Typescript Book](https://gibbok.github.io/typescript-book/) by [gibbok](https://github.com/gibbok) on GitHub

*Want to be in this list next week? Post your Astro websites, projects, apps, tools, blog posts, demo's and videos in ⁠#showcase!*
