Welcome to Support
We use this site to document ways to help out in Astro community support efforts.
How can you Contribute to Support?
- Answering questions in
#support
(note: mention#support-ai
?)- Providing a reference from Astro docs is highly recommended (see knowledge base)
- Providing a working example that solves their problem
- Instead of providing a specific solution, try to provide a general solution that can be applied to similar problems
- Answering questions on Support Squid StackOverflow or Reddit (note: expand to give brief instructions & links to SO guides)
- Sorting GitHub withastro/astro issues, contributing with comments, tests, reproductions, or even fixes.
- How support squad can help docs: https://contribute.docs.astro.build/roles/support-squad/
Roles
- Support Squad: Anyone can assign themselves the “Support Squad” role in the
Channels & Roles
section of the Astro Discord server. This helps let others know you’re interested in helping, and may be occasionally mentioned for support related events. - Support Patrol: A role for people who have been actively helping others in the Astro community.
Providing Support
Searching for Previous Answers
Discord provides built-in search features, both for the server, and for each forum. The server-wide search is much more feature complete, and is the one we’d recommend using.
Handling Situations
reusable phrases, how to exit a situation, etc.
Knowledge Base
- Astro docs: Guides, API reference, and everything else!
- Examples: astro.new, themes and community repositories
- Releases & changelogs
- Existing answered questions help you learn from experienced members of the community