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 ×××

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