Simple minimal portfolio website with SvelteKit and Sveltestrap

Wiktor Nazaruk — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:29:10 +0000

Building a personal portfolio is essential for showcasing your work to potential clients or employers. Using modern web development frameworks like SvelteKit and styling libraries like Sveltestrap, you can create a clean, minimal, and performant portfolio website in no time. In this post, we'll walk you through building a simple minimal portfolio website and show how you can easily customize it by editing a single data file.

Check out the live portfolio

Introduction

This portfolio is built with SvelteKit, a powerful and fast web framework for building web applications. It uses Sveltestrap, a Bootstrap-inspired component library for Svelte, to provide pre-designed responsive UI components. This combination of technologies ensures that your portfolio is not only lightweight and fast but also visually appealing and easy to customize.

Whether you're a developer, designer, or creative professional, this portfolio website can help you stand out with its minimalistic design and smooth user experience.

Project Structure

    minimal-portfolio/
    │
    ├── src/
    │   ├── data/
    │   │   └── data.js       # Main file for data customization
    │   ├── lib/
    │   │   └── components/   # Contains all components
    │   │       ├── About.svelte
    │   │       ├── Contact.svelte
    │   │       ├── Footer.svelte
    │   │       ├── Header.svelte
    │   │       ├── Intro.svelte
    │   │       ├── ProjectCard.svelte
    │   │       └── Projects.svelte
    │   ├── routes/
    │   │   ├── about/
    │   │   │   └── +page.svelte  # About page route
    │   │   ├── contact/
    │   │   │   └── +page.svelte  # Contact page route
    │   │   └── +layout.svelte    # Main layout for pages
    │   │   └── +page.svelte      # Home page route
    │   ├── styles/
    │   │   └── global.css        # Global styles
    │   └── app.html              # Root HTML template
    │
    ├── static/
    │   ├── fonts/                # Custom fonts
    │   ├── photos/               # Images
    │   └── favicon.png           # Favicon for the website
    ├── package.json              # Project dependencies and scripts
    ├── svelte.config.js          # SvelteKit configuration
    ├── vite.config.js            # Vite configuration
    ├── vercel.json               # Vercel deployment configuration
    └── README.md                 # Project documentation

Ease of Customizing the data.js File

One of the best things about this project is how simple it is to customize the portfolio content. All the data you need to modify is stored in a single file: data.js.

Source Code

If you want to clone the project, make further modifications, or explore the full source code, you can find the GitHub repository here. The repository includes all the instructions needed to get started.

Conclusion

This minimal portfolio project is perfect for developers who want a fast, simple, and easy-to-customize personal website. With SvelteKit’s smooth developer experience and Sveltestrap’s pre-built components, you can create a stunning portfolio in no time. All customization is handled via the data.js file, making it easy to update your portfolio content whenever needed.

Feel free to explore, modify, and deploy your portfolio to showcase your personal brand!