Building a Modern Portfolio with Astro and Contentful

Project Overview

This portfolio site demonstrates the power of combining Astro's performance-first approach with Contentful's flexible content management. I created a modern, maintainable, and blazing-fast web experience by leveraging Claude AI for development assistance.

Technical Architecture

The site is built on these key technologies:

• Astro: Powers the core framework, enabling partial hydration and optimal performance
• Contentful: Provides a flexible headless CMS with powerful content modelling
• React: Used for interactive components while maintaining performance through island architecture
• Tailwind CSS: Enables rapid styling with utility-first approach

Development Process

The development workflow was streamlined through AI assistance:

• Content Modeling: Claude AI helped design an extensible content structure that accommodates various content types while maintaining relationships between entities.
• Component Development: Generated base components and suggested optimizations for performance and accessibility.
• Integration: Automated creation of TypeScript interfaces and API integration code for Contentful.