Popular web framework Astro is making lots of headlines this week, between new experimental feature Server Islands, and achieving “official deployment partner” status with Netlify, it’s been a whirlwind.

But in addition to Astro’s big news, Expo, arguably the most popular framework for building React Native apps, has been endorsed by the React Native team as the recommended way to build apps.

Also, Vitest 2.0, the fastest growing test framework, has introduced a new experimental feature called “Browser Mode”, which allows users to run tests in the browser natively, providing access to browser globals like window and document.

Now back to Astro. In 2021, Astro made island architecture a mainstream idea, and Server Islands takes it a step further, making it easy to combine high performance static HTML and dynamic-server generated components.

And the Astro announcements kept coming with Netlify being declared Astro’s official deployment partner. Netlify’s betting on Astro and Server Islands, and will be sponsoring the Astro team with $12,500 each month to keep improving the framework and OSS community. Well done, Astro team!

News:

• Paige - Expo is the recommended way to build React Native apps
• Jack - Astro 4.12 Server Islands and Astro server-islands demo site
• TJ - Netlify is Astro’s “Official Deployment Partner”

Bonus news:

• https://vitest.dev/guide/browser/

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Grafana dashboards
• Jack - Public speaking
• TJ - Mammoth Cave National Park

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