Search Results: Astro

Discover Astronomer, an Electron desktop application built entirely with vanilla JavaScript that delivers NASA astronomy data with enterprise-grade security. This open-source project offers observation planning, Hubble birthday views, and real-time ISS tracking while demonstrating how Electron apps can avoid common security pitfalls.

A new open-source UI component library, Basis UI, has launched, tailored exclusively for Astro developers and drawing inspiration from Shadcn's design philosophy. Built with Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS, it offers pre-fabricated components like authentication flows and dashboards to accelerate web development. This could reshape how teams build performant, modern sites with Astro's static-first approach.

New research suggests our Milky Way galaxy is a mere speck within the vast Laniākea supercluster, which itself appears to be gravitationally drawn into the colossal Shapley Supercluster. This discovery, driven by analyzing the motions of 56,000 galaxies, challenges cosmological models and forces a fundamental rethink of matter distribution in our cosmic neighborhood.

A newly compiled list of over 250 resources spotlights the tools and techniques powering modern, performance-first web development. Static site generators like 11ty and Astro dominate personal sites of leading developers, while CSS and SVG innovations showcase the web's creative potential.