Ahead Vision

Details Website and content management system for Ahead Vision, an Italian company bringing a new approach to Out of Home advertising. The goal was a site that feels editorial and premium rather than templated, while staying fully editable by the client. Everything - pages, projects, blog and news posts, team members, SEO metadata - is managed from a custom admin panel, with no developer involved after launch. Stack used: Astro 5, React 19, Chart.js, Payload CMS 3, Next.js 15, TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers / D1 / R2

Technical overview Front-end is built with Astro 5 in SSR mode, with React 19 islands for the interactive parts. Server-side rendering on every request means content published in the CMS is live instantly, with no rebuild or redeploy. Back-end is Payload CMS 3 on Next.js 15, fully typed in TypeScript, with collections for pages, projects, blog posts, categories, team members, media and contact submissions, settings and per-page SEO. Infrastructure Both apps are deployed as separate Cloudflare Workers (the CMS through OpenNext ). Database on Cloudflare D1 with versioned migrations, media on Cloudflare R2. In production the front-end reaches the CMS through a Cloudflare service binding, worker-to-worker, skipping DNS entirely for lower latency. Proud to say that the full stack can run at €0/month on Cloudflare's free tier.

Design Nothing came out of a UI kit. The whole interface is written by hand on a small set of design tokens (colour, type scale, spacing, container widths), and every section was reviewed and adjusted manually: spacing, line lengths, optical alignment, motion; Until it matched the design code we'd defined for the brand.

Work section (projects page) The Work section is the case-study archive: showing every campaign Ahead Vision has run, each card showing client, title, a short excerpt and the city it took place in, over a hero image pulled from the CMS. Everything on the page is editable from the CMS, including per-project SEO metadata and Open Graph image, with a draft/published toggle so campaigns can be prepared before going live.

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