How-to recipes
See guided examples of adding features to your Astro project.
Official Recipes
Section titled Official RecipesAstro’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!
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Installing a Vite or Rollup plugin
Learn how you can import YAML data by adding a Rollup plugin to your project.
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Build a custom image component
Learn how to build a custom image component that supports media queries using the getImage function.
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Build forms with API routes
Learn how to use JavaScript to send form submissions to an API Route.
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Build HTML forms in Astro pages
Learn how to build HTML forms and handle submissions in your frontmatter.
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Use Bun with Astro
Learn how to use Bun with your Astro site.
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Call endpoints from the server
Learn how to call endpoints from the server in Astro.
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Verify a Captcha
Learn how to create an API route and fetch it from the client.
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Build your Astro Site with Docker
Learn how to build your Astro site using Docker.
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Dynamically import images
Learn how to dynamically import images using Vite's import.meta.glob function.
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Add icons to external links
Learn how to install a rehype plugin to add icons to external links in your Markdown files.
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Add i18n features
Use dynamic routing and content collections to add internationalization support to your Astro site.
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Create a dev toolbar app
Learn how to create a dev toolbar app for your site.
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Add last modified time
Build a remark plugin to add the last modified time to your Markdown and MDX.
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Add reading time
Build a remark plugin to add reading time to your Markdown or MDX files.
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Share state between Islands
Learn how to share state across framework components with Nano Stores.
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Share state between Astro Components
Learn how to share state across Astro components with Nano Stores.
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Using streaming to improve page performance
Learn how to use streaming to improve page performance.
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Style rendered Markdown with Tailwind Typography
Learn how to use @tailwind/typography to style your rendered Markdown.