[Community Call] December 6, 2022

[natemoo-re]

• Announcement Astro has joined the Fediverse! https://m.webtoo.ls/@astro/109467894099908693
• Announcement Design stuff!
  • @doodlemarks recently joined as our first full-time designer!
  • Official Houston emojis on Discord.
  • @Princesseuh lead the charge on revamping our error overlay!
  • We've been working on some updates to Astro's branding—excited to share more soon.
  • Actively working on Swag 👀
• Reminder The Astro VS Code extension Pre-Release is still collecting feedback!
  • Added support for is:raw
  • Added support for props using the shorthand syntax (<element {prop} />)
  • Added support for using template literals directly for attributes
  • Added support for attributes using @ and dots in their name (this unlocks Alpine support)
  • Added support for getting file references for JavaScript files inside Astro files
  • Fixed colgroup element causing syntax errors
  • Fixed doctype element causing completions to not work when it wasn't self-closed
  • Fixed completions not working after script tags in certain cases
  • Fixed certain keywords with lesser-than comparisons causing syntax errors inside script tags
  • Fixed HTML comments causing completions to not work in certain cases
  • Fixed HTML comments inside strings inside expressions causing syntax errors
  • Fixed tags inside strings causing syntax errors
• Announcement Docs stuff!
  • New a11y link check for Docs PRs! Links must use descriptive text (not "here" "read more" etc.) Add linter check that fails for nondescript link labels docs#2128
  • New error message pages! One for each message, reachable from the Docs Error Reference Page
• Reminder Two major RFCs are collecting feedback
  • These will be released behind experimental flags! We're racing towards the finish line on both.
  • Prerender API #362 + Experimental Prerender API astro#5297
  • Content Collections #373 + Content Collections astro#5291
• RFC renderContent is in progress, will be discussing next week. See Head propagation astro#5511 for more info.

If there is something that you would like to see discussed, please comment below. We will prioritize items already on the agenda, but if there is time to spare we will open up the call to get attention on and discuss other threads and feature requests.