Astro transitions are a fantastic little addition for your static sites. Built on top of Web APIs they allow for a little flair for your blog with little implementation. However, they can cause the dreaded Flash of Unstyled Content - let's see how we can fix that.

Vercel analytics is a great way to track your Astro site usage, and the hobby plan bundles it for free! Here is two options for adding it to your Astro site, even when running in "static" output mode.

A little time saver using the git pre-push hook

Slicing data with Tanstack Query and TypeScript. TypeScript gotchas and other considerations when using the "select" function.