Supper Club × What's New With Astro with Fred Schott

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott all things Astro with the announcement of Astro version 3, marketing open source projects, Starlight docs, keeping up to date, and making major version numbers less scary. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 3x guest Fred Schott! Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott — Syntax Podcast 580 Pika Pkg — Syntax Podcast 212 05:11 What is Astro? 07:37 What’s new in Astro v3? Astro 3.0 | Astro 14:18 Behind the scenes improvements in Astro v3 18:17 HMR Enhancements 20:10 What’s the hosting partner deal with Vercel? Vercel: Our Official Hosting Partner | Astro 28:04 Docs template Starlight announcement Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro 31:28 How often do you release updates? 33:47 Marketing open source Time to suit up | Astro Shop SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined 36:18 Making major version numbers less scary 40:04 Does Astro use Vite? Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling 42:01 Is it different working on a framework than a tool like Snowpack? 43:53 Thoughts on cloud text editors Project IDX 47:02 How do you keep up to date? 48:43 Do you write in TypeScript? 51:31 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Factorio Shameless Plugs Astro (@astrodotbuild) Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky