Great portfolio! Especially like how the details of each project "pop over" the page on mobile; gives it an almost native feel ✨
Totally agree on Gatsby feeling overkill though (but it's a great opportunity to use React!). I actually did a little experiment with Pug templating instead of React on my own portfolio, and really liked the result. Basically, you get to write components, but without the JS bundle shipped at the end. More on that experiment here in case you whip up more static sites in the future!
Hi, Ben! I actually read your post while I was writing my own. Pug and Eleventy (IIRC you mentioned it in your post) is actually how I usually scaffold my websites, I wanted to take the opportunity to have a bit more under my wing :)
Oh haha, good to know! I feel like I learned these approaches backwards, moving from frameworks back to more fundamental templating approaches. I'll drop a follow since you probably have more wisdom on the topic than I do atm 😁
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Great portfolio! Especially like how the details of each project "pop over" the page on mobile; gives it an almost native feel ✨
Totally agree on Gatsby feeling overkill though (but it's a great opportunity to use React!). I actually did a little experiment with Pug templating instead of React on my own portfolio, and really liked the result. Basically, you get to write components, but without the JS bundle shipped at the end. More on that experiment here in case you whip up more static sites in the future!
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Ben Holmes ・ Jul 7 ・ 8 min read
Hi, Ben! I actually read your post while I was writing my own. Pug and Eleventy (IIRC you mentioned it in your post) is actually how I usually scaffold my websites, I wanted to take the opportunity to have a bit more under my wing :)
Oh haha, good to know! I feel like I learned these approaches backwards, moving from frameworks back to more fundamental templating approaches. I'll drop a follow since you probably have more wisdom on the topic than I do atm 😁