Madza

Posted on Sep 25, 2020

GitHub Profile as a Portfolio: Your thoughts?

#webdev #discuss #github #portfolio

Thanks to GitHub profile readmes, the user can include all the bio and links in the profile, bringing the functionality closer to the full portfolio.

That brings up the discussion do you still need both as the info included in both might duplicate a lot. What are your thoughts on this?

Top comments (16)

Michael Gee • Sep 25 '20

I personally disagree with having a Github profile as your portfolio, it should be more of an introduction.

Your personal website/portfolio is a great opportunity to showcase your coding and design skills in practice. As a web developer, it just makes more sense to display your projects and info in code rather than markdown.

This can obviously be a bit tricky for back-end developers but I'd say with much simpler UI they can place more emphasis on their projects rather than design.

Jacob Evans • Sep 26 '20

Your projects are a great way to showcase your closing and design skills... Which are on GH. You can be pretty creative with the HTML and MD in GH special repo.

I'm a strong proponent for there is no one right way to be creative or present yourself.

JoelBonetR 🥇 • Sep 25 '20

totally agree

Louis Low • Sep 25 '20

I believe it could be somehow replacing the full portfolio for certain people who just want a landing page look like fit in their Github profile page. If design it carefully and properly. But not using the crappy and ugly generators. One day, I will make an example by using my UI design skill.

Madza • Sep 25 '20

Looking forward to see it 👀😉

Louis Low • Sep 25 '20

You have my words, bro.

Harsh Singh • Sep 28 '20

I'm not too sure oh having your entire profile readme as your portfolio. It can be a great introduction, yeah! The main purpose of these readmes, in my opinion, should be to give a brief overview of who you are, what you like, and what you have been working with/on for the past week, etc.

I don't know how impressed people would be if they see your portfolio is literally a brief one page summary of yourself...on GitHub.

Don't get me wrong, profile readmes are great. I personally love them, though a person would (probably) be more impressed if he/she saw a more interactive, colorful and beautifully designed webage (like this one), rather than a 1 page brief introduction to your skills and projects. Especially if you're a web developer.

Giorgos Sarigiannidis • Sep 25 '20

Given that both GitHub and LinkedIn are Microsoft properties, I believe that there is space for interesting integrations here.

Meghan (she/her) • Sep 25 '20

I recently switched to because I accepted that I never get around to it with all the time I spend working on my other projects. And with the ability to pin repo's to my profile, it shows all the info I want anyway.

Swastik Baranwal • Sep 25 '20

I have used it as a general introduction not portfolio. I think portfolio deserves a better space.

Darshak Parikh • Sep 25 '20

Agreed. Portfolio is something that requires more screen estate. I also prefer applying a personal style to a portfolio as opposed to plain Markdown.

David Johnston • Sep 30 '20

It depends on what you mean by 'portfolio'.

Plenty of social media accounts have a single 'website' option, and yeah - unless you have your own website, then I think github is what I would be putting in.

That said, making your own website can be good too, though, a bit of work and maybe you have better things to do, maybe you aren't a web developer.

Rahul Jain • Sep 26 '20

I personally feel that the use case of GitHub Profile is different from Personal Portfolio.

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