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.