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I made a full-stack and type-safe personal site using the t3-stack (Next.js)!

ashish on October 18, 2022

Intro First of all, thanks a lot for 1000+ followers on Dev.to, I really can’t believe we’ve come this far. I hadn’t even thought that I...

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Shoubhit Dash • Oct 19 '22

Mine is also made with create-t3-app :)

Asheesh and my website have full stack elements so its perfectly fine to use the T3 stack because of the excellent DX it provides.

But if a website is mostly static I'd recommend using Astro

ashish • Oct 19 '22

@dayvster ICYMI 👆

JS • Nov 23 '22

Nice tutorial! Actually, I wrote a similar one about creating a ToDo App using the same stack as T3. So if you feel it relevant, I'd be happy to hear your opinion.
How to Build a Production-Ready Todo App in One Next.js Project With ZenStack

Dayvster 🌊 • Oct 19 '22

Well done, looks good. I dig the super minimal and clean look you went for.
One note: the lightmode/darkmode toggle doesn't seem to work for me yet.

Also didn't Theo say he'd advise against building personal portfolios with the t3 stack :P

Also took the liberty of checking out some of your other posts, dig the writing style, keep it up!

Deffo a blog to bookmark

ashish • Oct 19 '22

thank you so much for taking time to read the blog and other blogs too ❤️

oh, I think you're mistaken, what theo meant was that t3-stack is overkill for a portfolio site with no need for heavy backend like a site with only blog, but mine has pages which utilize whole backend like guestbook so t3-stack was the best choice for me!

leob • Oct 26 '22

Thanks for the write-up, a few quick remarks though after looking at your website:

First and foremost, the fonts on some pages are REALLY hard to read - worst offenders are the "Now" and "About" pages (asrvd.me/now and asrvd.me/about) - those are virtually impossible to read because the font color is dim and dark ... just change to a lighter color, and Bob's your uncle
There's a menu option at the left with a lightbulb icon, which I assume is meant to toggle between dark mode and light mode? That one doesn't seem to work however ...

Overall nice job though, some cool features.

ashish • Oct 26 '22

thanks for the detailed review, I'll fix the font issue asap, I think I might even change the font
About the theme switcher, I'm working on it, am preoccupied atm but it will be working soon!

PassageNick • Oct 26 '22

I hate to break it to you, but a "GuestBook" is as old as the internet itself.

I had a guest book on my website in 1996. ;-)

ashish • Oct 26 '22

that's so cool actually, the first time i had encountered a guestbook on a personal site was on leerob.io though, looks like we are missing out on a lot of good stuff