I Rebuilt Our Company Website With Astro and Claude Code - Here's What Actually Worked

We had an 85-page company website on Typedream. It was slow, messy, and impossible to maintain. Pages were duplicated, the design was inconsistent, and every small change meant logging into a drag-and-drop editor that fought you at every step. So I decided to rebuild the whole thing. From scratch. Using Astro, Tailwind, and Claude Code as my main coding partner. Two months later we had a 30-page site that loads faster, ranks better, and actually converts. Here's what I learned along the way — the stuff that worked, the stuff that didn't, and practical tips if you want to try the same thing. Why Astro If you haven't tried Astro, it's a web framework that ships zero JavaScript by default. You write components, and Astro renders them to static HTML. When you need interactivity — a mobile menu, a calculator, a form — you add a "React Island" that hydrates only that component. For a content-heavy site like ours, this is perfect. Most of our pages are guides, service descriptions, and compar