After building a custom loader for Astro to load content from PocketBase, I wanted to make the developer experience even better. In this post, I show you how I built an integration with a custom toolbar for viewing and refreshing PocketBase entities, complete with realtime updates.

With Astro 5, you can now load content from any source using custom loaders. In this post, I show you how I built a custom loader to load content from PocketBase, how you can use it in your own projects and how you can build your own.

Roughly 2 years ago I was asked to build a website for latin teaching material in cooperation with the department of classical philology at the university of Würzburg. In this article I want to share my experiences in building it, show you the tech stack behind it and what else was needed to make it work.