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This website - built the way we build for clients.

Our own site is our first case study: a composable Next.js build with a token-based design system, every page data-driven and statically pre-rendered - designed, built and shipped in-house.

Industry
Our own site
Services
Web Strategy · Web Design · Web Engineering
Timeline
In-house build
Year
2026
AstrEdge
Pages statically pre-rendered
100%
Pages statically pre-rendered
Design system - tokens in code
1
Design system - tokens in code
Layers between design and build
0
Layers between design and build

The challenge

An agency that tells clients to treat their website as a product had better run its own site the same way. We needed a site that could grow page by page - blog, case studies, capabilities, solutions - without a rebuild, and that demonstrates the stack we recommend instead of just describing it.

What we did

  • Started with a design system, not pages: colour, type, spacing and motion live as tokens, and every section is a reusable component.
  • Made all content data-driven - copy, navigation, case studies and blog posts live in typed data files, so editing the site never means touching layout code.
  • Built on Next.js with the App Router: every page is statically pre-rendered, media is optimised automatically, and new routes ship in minutes.
  • Kept effects in CSS - the grid reveals, light beam and gradients are a few lines of tokens each, not JavaScript libraries.

The outcome

The site you're reading: fully static, one codebase, one component set behind every page. When we added the blog, careers, case studies and four more sections, none of the existing pages changed - which is exactly the property we sell.

The best website is not the one that launches perfectly. It is the one that is still easy to change two years later.

- AstrEdge playbook
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