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Discussion on: How is your portfolio built?

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Tim Smith

Are they all the same site or do they each look different? I thought about trying to build my portfolio in multiple frameworks to show that I could use both but never did.

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Seanmclem • Edited

They all have the same fundamental purpose of displaying blog posts, projects, and providing a contact form, but they're all implemented a bit differently because of the different frameworks.

It took me a while to come up with a way to make them all look slightly different, in a way that made sense. What I ended up doing is basing the UI and color schemes off of the docs pages for each. React, Vue, Angular -they all have docs that basically showcase a visual-style for the framework in terms of navigation, links, colors, cards, depth/shadows etc. So I've started to update them all to emulate the visuals of their own docs pages and to differentiate them visually in that way.

In the end one of the most important parts of the portfolios has become their existence. Showing an ability to implement a range of things in a range of ways -all with JS. As I slowly add content to the portfolio some of the blog posts have become about issues I had to solve to make the portfolio itself.

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Tim Smith

Very cool! I can definitely see how these would show of you skills with the various frameworks.