Minor Changes

• #7861 41afb8405 Thanks @matthewp! - Persistent DOM and Islands in Experimental View Transitions

  With viewTransitions: true enabled in your Astro config's experimental section, pages using the <ViewTransition /> routing component can now access a new transition:persist directive.

  With this directive, you can keep the state of DOM elements and islands on the old page when transitioning to the new page.

  For example, to keep a video playing across page navigation, add transition:persist to the element:

  <video controls="" autoplay="" transition:persist>
    <source
      src="https://ia804502.us.archive.org/33/items/GoldenGa1939_3/GoldenGa1939_3_512kb.mp4"
      type="video/mp4"
    />
  </video>
  

  This <video> element, with its current state, will be moved over to the next page (if the video also exists on that page).

  Likewise, this feature works with any client-side framework component island. In this example, a counter's state is preserved and moved to the new page:

  <Counter count={5} client:load transition:persist />
  

  See our View Transitions Guide to learn more on usage.

Patch Changes

• #7821 c00b6f0c4 Thanks @ottomated! - Fixes an issue that prevents importing 'astro/app'

• #7917 1f0ee494a Thanks @bluwy! - Prevent integration hooks from re-triggering if the server restarts on config change, but the config fails to load.

• #7901 00cb28f49 Thanks @bluwy! - Improve sourcemap generation and performance

• #7911 c264be349 Thanks @martrapp! - fix for #7882 by setting state in page navigation (view transitions)

• #7909 e1e958a75 Thanks @tonydangblog! - Fix: ignore .json files nested in subdirectories within content collection directories starting with an _ underscore.