I Built a Local Directory Site with Astro, Airtable, and Cloudflare - Here is the Architecture (opens in new tab)

I've built a few local directory sites lately - the "best X in town" kind of thing - and I kept reaching for the same stack: Astro for the frontend, Airtable as the CMS, Cloudflare to host it. After the third one I realised the architecture was the interesting part, not any individual site. So this is a writeup of how the pieces fit together, the decisions that actually mattered, and the two or three gotchas that cost me an afternoon each. If you're building anything that's mostly structured,...