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# Community Call

## Repos

*We noticed that the more people speak, the more fun the calls get, so try to include a lot of people*

### Astro Core

#### Latest version(s): `4.3` (4.4 to be released thursday)

Peek at [PRs set to release in 4.4](https://github.com/withastro/astro/milestone/10) and the [associated DocsPRs](https://github.com/withastro/docs/milestone/5)

Read [the latest blogpost](https://astro.build/blog/astro-430/)

[Astro CHANGELOG](https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/refs/heads/main/packages/astro/CHANGELOG.md)

#### New Stage 2 RFC: Improved env handling

https://github.com/withastro/roadmap/issues/837

Feel free to join the conversation to help us ship this feature!

### Starlight

Starlight `v0.18`

- Use Starlight in your on-demand rendered server app
- Better compatibility with custom routes with Astro’s `experimental.globalRoutePriority` option
- New minimum Astro version support — `v4.2.7` — update Astro together with Starlight with `npx @astrojs/upgrade`

Read more in [the release notes](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/releases/tag/%40astrojs/starlight%400.18.0)

### Adapters Repo

We are starting to look for help, see issues with label "good first issue"
https://github.com/withastro/adapters/issues/56

We are talking with Cloudflare to improve the Cloudflare adapter, this does include in deprecated a lot of options in favor of a more seamless developer experience and faster performance

## Around the Community


### New "Events" forum channel added

- For all Astro-related events! [Link to Events channel](https://discord.com/channels/830184174198718474/1204443492571422781)
- Having a meetup? Giving a talk? Make a thread there!
- Special ["Going live... now!"](https://discord.com/channels/830184174198718474/1204448643986493440) thread:
    - post here right before you stream
    - post here if you notice someone ELSE on a live stream!
    - subscribe for message notifications if you never want to miss someone going live... RIGHT NOW!
    - Many streams are replayable; visit the thread to see what you missed and catch up
- Drop into ["AstroConf?"](https://discord.com/channels/830184174198718474/1204452872666882069) and let us know what you think AstroConf could/should be!

### ecosystem-ci

Reminder of the ongoilng discussion around the idea for an ecosystem-ci: [⁠🚀 ecosystem-ci thread](https://discord.com/channels/830184174198718474/1204369341642973185)

### :houston_golden: Community Awards!

- 🌟 $500 to Florian for leading and supporting our integration builders, and contributing to all aspects of the Astro project and community.
- 🍾 $250 to Oliver for shipping features in Astro core and providing helpful community support.
- 🎈 $250 to Kevin for consistent contributions to Starlight development
- 🎊 $250 to Happydev for tackling several Astro code issues, fixes and improvements.
- 🎉 $250 to Glad777 for exceptional community involvement in support and docs

Check them out on https://community.astro.build/

### Other thing I guess we're announcing???
- @Oliver has become a maintainer!

### Talking & Doc'ing

On this week's Talking & Doc'ing we triaged and reviewed docs PRs. With the PR author on the call to help, we edited some new feature docs. They were *fine*, but we dug deep to get at the heart of what benefits the feature brought to the reader. As a group, we polished the wording so that not only the explanation, but the benefits and usage were crystal clear!

You can always find Talking and Doc'ing in the Discord Events, or on the [Astro community calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_g6re3u5gkl0mug3ktn1dibqhfk%40group.calendar.google.com). We never know what we'll be doing week-to-week, so you'll just have to show up to find out! 

**And if you're on the Fediverse, you can follow the [Astro Docs Mastodon account](https://m.webtoo.ls/@astrodocs/111834060827125926) for fun and frolic!**


### Video/content

- 📄 [How I use Notion and Astro to publish my monthly learnings](https://azan-n.com/projects/2024-02-08t091659138z/) by @azan_n
- 📄 [Using Weaviate's generative search with Astro for brainstorming](https://larryhudson.io/astro-weaviate-brainstorm/) by @larryhudson
- 📄 [Add diagrams to starlight using D2](https://hideoo.dev/notes/starlight-add-diagrams-using-d2) by @hideoo
- 📄 [Dynamic components - Is it worth it?](https://dev.to/marcelluscaio/dynamic-components-is-it-worth-it-28m5) by @caiomarcellus
- 📄 [Fetching the latest YouTube videos in an Astro Component](https://techsquidtv.com/blog/astro-fetching-youtube-videos-with-rss/)
- :tv: [Deploy an Astro static site to DigitalOcean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6t93CFnmps) by @zacksiri

### Tips and Tools

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(libraries, tools, themes, templates that people can use in their Astro projects; look in `#showcase` and social media for posts)

- [astro-clerk-auth](https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-clerk-auth) by @elefcodes
    - Unofficial integration to use Clerk with Astro for user authentication and management
- [Adammatthiesen/astro-commercejs](https://github.com/Adammatthiesen/astro-commercejs) by @adamm2047
    - An integration to bring the CommerceJS SDK into Astro
- [inline-mod-astro](https://inox-tools.vercel.app/inline-mod) by @fryuni
    - Inline virtual modules to pass configuration values from build-time to runtime
- [JulianCataldo/og-images-generator](https://github.com/JulianCataldo/og-images-generator#astro-integration) by @juliancataldo
    - Generate social sharing thumbnails for your websites
- [BryceRussell/astro-pages](https://github.com/BryceRussell/astro-pages) by @bryceguy
    - Add custom file based routing directories in Astro
- [ktym4a/astro-page-insight](https://github.com/ktym4a/astro-page-insight) by @ktym4a
    - Dev toolpar app that highlights relevante elements from Lighthouse results
- [kindspells/astro-sri-scp](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kindspells/astro-sri-csp) by @andreu
    - An integration to help deal with Subresource Integrity hashes and Content-Security-Policy

### Templates

- [Astroplate](https://astro.build/themes/details/astroplate/) by @tffarhad
- [Quantum](https://cosmicthemes.com/themes/quantum/) by @lastchaos.

### Personal/Professional/Project Sites

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(Websites built with Astro from community members/individual peeps, **also tag with their Discord username if possible ❤️**)

- [wybm-valentine.netlify.app](https://wybm-valentine.netlify.app/) by @withered.flowers
- [mike-astrotutorial.netlify.app](https://mike-astrotutorial.netlify.app/) by @mikeoxygen
- [thatisrich.co.uk](https://www.thatisrich.co.uk/) by @thatisrich
- [wallcreo.com](https://wallcreo.com/) by @stan.kukucka
- [osteopathe-le-thor.fr](https://osteopathe-le-thor.fr/) by @arnaud_83976
- [dan-portoflio-v3.vercel.app](https://dan-portoflio-v3.vercel.app/) by @rythmlord
- [xypnox.com](https://www.xypnox.com/blag/posts/themescura/introducing-themescura/) by @xypnox
- [photosite-3cw.pages.dev](https://photosite-3cw.pages.dev/) by @casungo
- [sanquirinoestudio.com.ar](https://sanquirinoestudio.com.ar/)	by @.wateredplant
- [suplovers.co](https://suplovers.co/) by @alejostereo
- [gitarchived.org](https://gitarchived.org/) by @thebigbot

### Starlight in the wild

- [Tech For Everyone](https://beta.learning.nicholasdwest.com/) by @ndw0009
    - Essential tech skills teaching platform for students
- [Sagetest](https://eddienubes.github.io/sagetest/) by [eddienubes](<https://github.com/eddienubes>) on GitHub
    - Testing library for Node.js HTTP servers powered by undici
- [Astro Snipcart](https://astro-snipcart.vercel.app/) by [lloydjatkinson](<https://github.com/lloydjatkinson>) on GitHub
    - Astro integration to build an e-commerce site with Snipcart
- [ZanobiJS](https://zanobijs.vercel.app/) by [devdroide](<https://github.com/devdroide>) on GitHub
    - Mini-framework for building small, efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side microservices
- [`vue-simple-dnd`](https://vue-simple-dnd.netlify.app/) by @florian_lefebvre
    - A simple Drag and Drop library for Vue 3.