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How I created a minimal linktree like page for me in just 2 hours.

ashish on May 21, 2022

The Plan I have seen a lot of people using linktree and similar sites where you can create your social links page, but I needed somethin...

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Khokon M. • May 21 '22

Isn't it a bit overkill for such a simple page?
Just casually asking, so that I can discover whats your perspective to use this much tech on just a simple page.

SIMBIOSIS • May 21 '22

I think that it's a pretty piece of an idea. Maybe you perceive it overkillig if you just look at it as it is.... But, if you are able to forsee all the possibilities it brings starting from here, it's a real good practice to do things well since the beginning.

ashish • May 21 '22 • Edited

I get your point, actually while making it even I thought that maybe I'm overengineering the site but the thing is, actually I didn't if you look at it from my perspective. I've been using NextJS for quite some time now, and at the moment, it's far more faster and productive for me to use Next than any other framework/method, styling using tailwind was also because I didn't want to give much time to styling or I couldn't have been able to complete the project in this short span of time. About other libraries I used, both react-hot-toast and react-tooltip are quite minimal libraries and thus they hardly affect the bundle size.

Khokon M. • May 22 '22

Thanks guys. I got what I needed 😇

codeyStein • May 21 '22 • Edited

I'm not the author and I'm still learning React, but in my personal oppinion, it might be a little over complicated, but I think makes it easier to update things when needed.

Luca • Jun 1 '22

Nice looking, to me it's a bit overkill to use nextjs for such a page (big fan of vanilla js), but I understand you wanted to be able to expand the project without having to completely rewrite.
Tell the truth, 2 hours completing but 3/4 of it for running npm install 😁?
(Joking)

ashish • Jun 1 '22

😂🤫 sshh, don't let them know

Anurag Singh • May 22 '22 • Edited

Yeah, I prefer this approach for a minimalistic portfolio site - check mine

frankly, yours looking way better, clean af!

ashish • May 22 '22

thanks! actually it was not meant to be a portfolio site, it's just a site to share all my social links and contacts :)

I checked your site and it looks so much similar to mine, just a suggestion, you can reduce the heading font size and change the font style, also there's unnecessary scroll on the body so maybe hide it with overflow-y: hidden; 🤔