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 ×××

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