I built and rebuilt 24 Astro themes without reusable components. It cost me a year of my life

I built and rebuilt 24 Astro themes without reusable components. It cost me a year of my life.

For my first year building Astro themes with Tailwind CSS, I deliberately avoided reusable components. No shared buttons. No wrappers. No system. It felt faster, more portable, and easier to tear apart — until the library grew and maintenance turned into 24 separate problems instead of one.

This is the real breakdown of why I made that choice, what it cost me over time, and why I eventually rewrote 24 Astro themes from scratch to introduce reusable components without killing flexibility and reach 43 themes.

**Learn from my mistakes:
**https://lexingtonthemes.com/blog/building-astro-themes-without-reusable-components