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
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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?
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Supper Club × Astro 2.0 with Fred Schott
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Fred Schott about all things Astro v2.0. What is Astro and why should you use it? How do islands work? Images, edge, AI, error overlays, hybrid rendering, and more!
Show Notes 00:40 Welcome
01:08 Guest introduction
FredKSchott.com
@Fredkschott on Twitter
Fred on GitHub
02:17 What is Astro and why should someone use it?
04:57 What can you build with Astro?
06:11 What’s an island in content?
09:43 How do routes work with Astro?
12:30 How is Markdown handled in Astro?
mdxjs
14:32 How does Astro work on the edge?
18:15 How does Astro v2 handle data fetching?
23:25 Integrations with Astro
26:38 Astro AI bot?
AI Langchain
30:40 Error overlay design
36:10 What are some of the most important upgrades in v2?
37:18 Hybrid rendering
40:27 Astro’s image component
Squoosh
44:39 What happened to snowpack? Pikapkg?
46:48 What is the financial model for Astro?
50:28 Supper Club questions
Obsidian
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Pika Pkg
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Fred Schott about Pika Pkg, a new kind of package registry for the modern web.
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Show Notes 3:24 - What is Pika?
9:40 - What about peer dependencies?
12:53 - What does migration look like?
17:30 - Are these tools making things easier?
21:25 - What is the Pika Registry?
34:48 - What is the Pika editor?
41:13 - Is it open source?
47:30 - What about security?
Links Fred Schott
@FredKSchott
Pika
@pikapkg
Snowpack
Pika Builders
Babel
Typescript
Webpack
CSZ
Parcel
Deno
VSCode
Entropic
Homebrew
Plex
Synology NAS
Luke Jackson
Toolsday Podcast
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Fred: Idle Supermarket
Scott: Theragun
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Shameless Plugs Fred: Pika
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