Arpan Patel
arpanpatel36.bsky.social
Arpan Patel
@arpanpatel36.bsky.social
Open Source Contributor @astro.build. Tech Lead at WaFdBank. Sharing insights on Web, React Native, Applied AI, DB & Infra
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Shoutout to the team at @astro.build for the Starlight docs framework. It made building out portabletext.org so much easier!

(Yes, we do recognize the irony in documenting Portable Text with Markdown)
Portable Text Editor
Fully customizable authoring of rich text and block content
portabletext.org
December 18, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Very excited to share this. Experimental session support in Astro. With Astro.session we're aiming to make sessions as easy as they are in PHP and Rails. It's experimental now, but please try it out and let me know how you get on.
Thanks to @unjs.io for unstorage which powers the actual storage.
astro.build Astro @astro.build · Dec 19
Astro 5.1 is now in session

Introducing Astro.session, an experimental utility to share data between requests. This is for you PHP lovers.

See what else we launched 👇

astro.build/blog/astro-5...
Astro 5.1 | Astro
Astro 5.1 is now available. This includes a new experimental sessions feature, improved caching for images, and new tools for building Astro Actions.
astro.build
December 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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The Epic Programming Principles: the guide I use to make decisions as a software engineer.

Transcending specific tools or frameworks, these principles will help you guide your career, craft, and technical choices.

See details and examples for each principle here: www.epicweb.dev/principles 📖
December 6, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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React v19 is now stable!

react.dev/blog/2024/12...
React v19 – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
react.dev
December 5, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Astro 5.0 is here.
Content layer, server islands, simplified prerendering, type-safe env, @vite.dev v6. All stable.

Go see what you can do 👇
astro.build/blog/astro-5/
Astro 5.0 | Astro
Astro 5.0 brings exciting new features like the Astro Content Layer for seamless content loading from any source, and Server Islands for effortlessly combining static and dynamic personalized content.
astro.build
December 3, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Brace yourselves Astro is coming!! 🚀
mk.gg Matt Kane @mk.gg · Dec 1
Big week coming up for @astro.build
December 1, 2024 at 2:00 PM
It looks like @astro.build is working on something exciting! 🚀
It's here! And you know what it means for @astro.build , right?
November 26, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Vite 6.0 is out ⚡️
vite.dev/blog/announc...
Announcing Vite 6
Vite 6 Release Announcement
vite.dev
November 26, 2024 at 2:26 PM
🎉 Honored to receive the October 2024 Community Award for contributions to Astro's core packages and docs! 🚀

Thanks, @astro.build, for the recognition and building an amazing community! community.astro.build

Let's keep building and supporting each other! 🌟 #opensource #tech
November 13, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Writing the Jamstack chapter for the 2024 Web Almanac report this year was eye-opening. The standout: the average Astro site has a JavaScript footprint that's 72% lighter than Next.js 🤯

almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/jams...
November 11, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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ikea.com now on Astro.
Heard it was as easy to build as my bookshelf 🇸🇪
November 11, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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The 2024 Web Almanac is out (some chapters still TBD).
almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/

At a glance, the Performance section shows 75% of mobile users see 3 seconds of blocked user interactivity, which is typically due to bloat/over-reliance on JavaScript.
almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/perf...
Performance | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive
Performance chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering Core Web Vitals, with deep dives into the Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and Interaction to Next Paint metrics and their diagno...
almanac.httparchive.org
November 11, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Let's build together go.bsky.app/CUmM1XS
November 3, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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For the latest Starlight release, Astro maintainers @hideoo.bsky.social and @hippotastic.bsky.social dug into performance and accessibility.

Enjoy up to 35% faster builds and improved accessible markup for our Aside and Tabs components.

Make your next docs site shine at starlight.astro.build/
Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro
Starlight helps you build beautiful, high-performance documentation websites with Astro.
starlight.astro.build
November 9, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Did you know all the cool things @astro.build maintainers have built outside of Astro?

The Astro Starter Pack contains all our maintainers on Bluesky, and so many of them have cool, funky side projects on the go. Give them a follow and discover their stuff!

bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 9, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Actions in @astro.build are going to get better real soon! 🔥

It's going to require a few more iterations, but we are going to land a good architecture, with flexible APIs.
November 6, 2024 at 8:20 AM
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Seriously, #nobuild is not the only solution. We needed a better abstraction on top of the build tools. This is Vite, and with Vite Ruby, it works with #Rails like a charm. vite-ruby.netlify.app
November 7, 2024 at 10:30 PM