New year and new portfolio 2026

Dharshak — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:43:07 +0000

This is a submission for the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AI

About Me

This is Sai Dharshak from India who works as a software developer in M2P Fintech, from Hyderabad who focuses on building scalable backend systems using NodeJs and ExpressJS frameworks. I've expertise in Java, Javascript, SQL, MongoDB, React, Python.
I just want to start with something new in this year 2026 and I found out this DEV challenge from dev.to

Portfolio

How I Built It

Tech stack i used to build this portfolio was only - HTML, CSS and JS. And, to deploy to google cloud run I choose to use node server running on port to deploy static files - index.html
I use Google gemini pro and Antigravity tools to build this portfolio

What I'm Most Proud Of

One thing I learnt something new from this project was deploying a web service through google cloud run.

Sorting Visualizer

Dharshak — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 07:10:02 +0000

Hello DEV people!
Today, I'm going to write my first dev blog explaining my project working experience of creating a sorting visualizer of different sort algorithms.

As part of the Crio IBelieveinDoing program, I selected and built a Sorting visualizer to visualize and understand the sorting algorithms. As of now, I built only 5 sorting algorithms as -



Bubble sort
Selection sort
Insertion sort
Merge sort
Quicksort

The main reason I choose this project to become more familiar with the javascript concepts, and CSS styling. So, I didn't use any frameworks other than HTML, CSS, and JS.

On successful completion with this project,
Now I'm familiar with the JS concepts, can confidently solve coding problems, write stylings in CSS.

About this Project

This project is built using HTML, CSS, and JS. This project sorting visualizer is a very simple UI and it allows the users to select the sort algorithm, select the array size, and speed of the visualization.

Pre-requisites




Code editor (which you prefer) I prefer VSCode
HTML
CSS
JS

Challenges I faced

Site responsiveness
To bring responsiveness to the site, I have gone back to learn CSS styling. It is like going back to the time when I was learning the CS fundamentals and web technologies as a beginner.
See the below image on how it looks like-
Writing sort algorithms in JS
And coming to the second challenge I faced writing sort algorithms in JS. When I want to write some code or learn algorithms for solving coding problems, I usually prefer Python/Java. Initially, I took more time to implement the first sort algorithm i.e., Bubble sort to perfectly work. After that, for the remaining algorithms, I took no time and implemented them so quickly one after the other.

What's inside the website

Currently available sorting algorithms- Bubble sort, Selection sort, Insertion sort, Merge sort, Quicksort (I will plan to bring more algorithms in action to visualize & more changes).
You can change the size of the array
You can change the speed of the visualization

Conclusion

This was my first project which I was deploying the website live. This was a great learning experience for me creating a full application from scratch.
Also, through this project, I was writing my first dev blog.

Thanks to the Crio community for providing the amazing learning experience with #learnbydoing projects and a big dev community.

Code and deployment

Here's the link to my sorting visualizer website-
sorting visualizer
Here's the link for the code-
sort visualizer code

Thanks for reading. I feel happy to connect & reach out to me for any discussions. Have a great day!!

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