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7/16/2026
How I Built My Site With Claude Code

How I Built My Site With Claude Code

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A product manager shares a detailed account of building a website from scratch using PHP, vanilla JavaScript, a custom CSS design system, and Claude Code as the coding partner. The project deliberately avoided all frameworks to understand fundamentals and learn AI-assisted development in practice. The article covers architecture decisions, a strict controller-service-model pattern, feature flags, and database migrations.

  • •Built a full website with PHP, vanilla JS, custom CSS, and Claude Code — no frameworks
  • •Deliberate constraint: understand fundamentals and learn AI-assisted development firsthand
  • •Strict layered architecture (thin controllers, service layer for mutations, models for persistence) kept codebase predictable

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