How I Rebuilt My Portfolio with Claude Code (9 minute read) (opens in new tab)

A product designer rebuilt his portfolio site in a single weekend using Claude Code, switching from Framer to a custom Astro + Tailwind stack deployed on GitHub Pages. Thorough upfront preparation — curated screenshots, a design brief, a build plan, and a CLAUDE.md file — proved more critical to success than prompting skill itself. The result is a fully owned codebase with a GitHub-native workflow, where each new feature follows a repeatable loop of issues, plans, branches, and pull requests.