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Discussion on: What tools would you choose to create a personal portfolio site if starting from scratch?

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Phillip Richdale

Tools I'd use:

  • Text Editor (VS Code, Geary, Sublime ...)
  • Image Editor (Gimp)
  • Web- CMS and/or Web Frontend Framework (Bootstrap 5, Bulma, MD Lite, etc.)

Using only a FE framework I also would use Git versioning from day one.

I wouldn't use a toolkit for complex webapps like react or such unless there are solid reasons to do so, like if your backend is already in place and is API-first or something. If you want to use the opportunity to use and learn something new the I'd go for offline static site generation with Gatsby or Hugo or something. But I'd rather avoid that as it's probably overkill for a personal portfolio website. You want to concentrate on other things when building that rather than learning new stuff meant for fringe cases.