Last post I covered the evening at a high level. Here’s what was actually happening under the hood.

My setup

The stack

  • Astro — the framework. Outputs plain HTML files, no database or server-side logic. Simple, fast, and easy to host.
  • GitHub — where the code lives. I used GitHub Desktop to commit and push without touching the command line.
  • Cloudflare Workers & Pages — hosting. I already used Cloudflare at work for DNS, so keeping the domain and hosting in the same platform was a natural choice.
  • Wrangler — Cloudflare’s deployment tool. One command to build and push the site live.

How working with Claude actually looked

Claude Cowork writes files directly into your connected folder — in this case, my local GitHub repo. So the workflow was: I describe what I want, Claude writes or edits the files, I review, commit, and push.

The back-and-forth felt natural. I’d say something like “I want a dark and light mode that follows the system setting but can also be toggled manually” — and Claude would handle the implementation, explain what it did, and flag anything I needed to know. When something broke, I’d paste the error and we’d debug it together.

I never had to go read documentation. I never had to understand CSS variables to have them work. The knowledge gap didn’t stop the progress.

The deployment

One command — npx wrangler deploy — builds the site and pushes it live. Claude configured the deployment file, I ran the command, and the site was up. Pointing the domain was the most familiar part of the whole evening — DNS record in Cloudflare, a few minutes to propagate.

The honest takeaway

The stack isn’t magic — it’s just tools. What made the evening work wasn’t any particular technology, it was having something that could bridge the gap between what I wanted and what needed to be written. Claude handled the web knowledge. I handled the judgment calls — what the site should say, how it should feel, what mattered.

If you’ve been waiting until you “know enough” to start building — you probably already do.

Next up — a new project. One my girlfriend and I will actually use. More on that soon.