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Discussion on: What tech did you use to build your personal website/portfolio? 2020 Edition!

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Micah Lindley

I have an unusually simple setup: a pure HTML/CSS/JS site running on GitHub pages, because in my opinion that's really all you need. I haven't migrated since (though it's been tempting to switch to something like Netlify or Vercel), primarily because of GitHub's excellent handling of my domain. My root domain (micahlindley.com) is connected to the micahlt/micahlt.github.io repository, but I've grown to love the fact that every GitHub repo built in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS can be easily deployed to Pages with no additional domain setup. It's simple and elegant, and it gives me a challenge to keep the site performant without utilizing server-side rendering or React.

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Tori

I did the same thing with the Github pages. pages.github.com/ It was just a really easy way to quickly get up and running. And not needing to worry about maintaining a domain was a big selling point for me.
I didn't do the extra layer of fancy though that you did to have your root domain connected to your repo. I like that extra touch :)
torik17.github.io/