How-to recipes

See guided examples of adding features to your Astro project.

Official Recipes

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Astro’s official recipes are short, focused how-to guides that walk a reader through completing a working example of a specific task. Recipes are a great way to add new features or behavior to your Astro project by following step-by-step instructions!

• Installing a Vite or Rollup plugin

  Learn how you can import YAML data by adding a Rollup plugin to your project.

• Analyze Bundle Size

  Learn how to analyze the bundle generated by Astro using `rollup-plugin-visualizer`.

• Build a custom image component

  Learn how to build a custom image component that supports media queries using the getImage function.

• Build forms with API routes

  Learn how to use JavaScript to send form submissions to an API Route.

• Build HTML forms in Astro pages

  Learn how to build HTML forms and handle submissions in your frontmatter.

• Use Bun with Astro

  Learn how to use Bun with your Astro site.

• Call endpoints from the server

  Learn how to call endpoints from the server in Astro.

• Verify a Captcha

  Learn how to create an API route and fetch it from the client.

• Build your Astro Site with Docker

  Learn how to build your Astro site using Docker.

• Dynamically import images

  Learn how to dynamically import images using Vite's import.meta.glob function.

• Add icons to external links

  Learn how to install a rehype plugin to add icons to external links in your Markdown files.

• Add i18n features

  Use dynamic routing and content collections to add internationalization support to your Astro site.

• Create a dev toolbar app

  Learn how to create a dev toolbar app for your site.

• Add last modified time

  Build a remark plugin to add the last modified time to your Markdown and MDX.

• Add reading time

  Build a remark plugin to add reading time to your Markdown or MDX files.

• Share state between Islands

  Learn how to share state across framework components with Nano Stores.

• Share state between Astro Components

  Learn how to share state across Astro components with Nano Stores.

• Using streaming to improve page performance

  Learn how to use streaming to improve page performance.

• Style rendered Markdown with Tailwind Typography

  Learn how to use @tailwind/typography to style your rendered Markdown.

Community Resources

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Find more recipes written and submitted by the community in our community recipes list.