Over the festive period I'm planning to redo my personal website.
So, for a hit of inspiration, what tech did you use to build yours?
And feel free to shamelessly plug it if you answer!
Over the festive period I'm planning to redo my personal website.
So, for a hit of inspiration, what tech did you use to build yours?
And feel free to shamelessly plug it if you answer!
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I went with Gatsby since I wanted to mess around in React land. I also wrote it in TypeScript since I'm currently not using TypeScript at work. Here's the full list, iamdeveloper.com/thanks/
The thanks page is really cool. I definitely should borrow that idea for myself.
Looking like that's the path I'm going to go down. Do enjoy a bit of TypeScript.
I do like the thanks page as well; might do something like that for mine.
Wordpress. And I'm extremely not sorry.
When I first built my super simple site, I used PHP, and customized everything. I wanted to show off my skills I learned in college, etc etc.
I didn't follow the web developer track - I went into mobile. After doing so, I realized a few things about maintaining my website.
Today my website is 100% blog. I'm hoping to add a store to sell some of the things I've designed. But Wordpress has made it a no-mess no-stress task for me, and completely meets my needs for now.
That's awesome Kim! WordPress and PHP used to, maybe still do, get a sideways look sometimes but they are solid, aren't going anywhere and are solid. I'm trying to take my PHP scrappiness over to Laravel. You might check it out if you like WP.
No judgement here! My long-standing website is currently WordPress with a custom theme because it was the quickest & easiest thing for me to do at the time to get something out there with my name on it.
Your reasons are so on point.
I used Gridsome because I really like the static site concept for a personal project and I like Vue. Additionally I used TailwindCSS for styling.
That's it... Hosted on netlify and done.
Drewtown.dev
Blazing fast! Congrats man
Agreed. Wicked fast. Congrats Drew on your high Google PageSpeed scores!
Hi, I just went for plain HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Usually, my portfolio is something that I use to test my skills. Before this, my portfolio was built in Vue since I was learning Vue back then.
This time I just wanted to see how far can I go without a dependency (and I had a lot of free time :D) and I do not regret it. I loved working in vanilla JavaScript.
Here's the website: saurabhdaware.in
I think it's good to know how things work at a vanilla level, certainly if you've the time to learn.
Very cool. Impressive achievements list. And, very fast indeed. Congrats!
I'm on the JAMstack as many others. I use Gatsby/React with markdown files (markdownRemark).
On top of that, I use images I make myself or some I find on places like freepik.com where you are required to attribute the creator.
For image editing, I use Gimp or PS as needed, and for vectors, Illustrator.
Furthermore, I am fond of hemingwayapp.com and grammarly.com for proofreading.
Cool. Ya, I love the Hemingway app. Been using it for years. Grammarly is great too. If you need a headline analyzer, I'm digging this one at the moment. headlines.sharethrough.com/
Enjoy!
Hemmingway App is interesting; haven't seen that one before. I'll give it a go-- thanks!
My blog is currently using Middleman for static site generation and hosted on Netlify. Neovim for editing. I used HTML from a template on pixelarity.com/
I'm in the middle of a headless rebuild which uses Craft CMS for the backend - hosted on a tiny Dokku VPS, Nuxt.JS for static site generation, Netlify for hosting, and Tailwind for the CSS.
Link: fullstackstanley.com
Ah, I’ve been looking at possible CMS solutions this morning, how is Craft? Any other recommendations of ones worth looking at?
There's a lot to love about Craft. It's really easy to get an admin area set up fast. There's a decent plugin ecosystem available, and the free tier is pretty good for a single user website.
If you want to create HTML sites with it, the templating engine is Twig and it's pretty easy to use although requires building the HTML from scratch (Personally I prefer it this way so I can optimize stuff).
The downside is that if you need more than one user, or GraphQL support, then you'll have to pay for the Pro license. Personally, I just use the Element API plugin instead for generating JSON endpoints.
I've also used Ghost CMS (blog.snipline.io) which is pretty great too for a standard blog and includes everything you need out of the box. Theming is easy and it's self-hostable for free, also has good SEO out of the box so no need to worry about that. It's built in Node which is a little trickier to deploy than Craft (which is PHP) but nothing too bad.
I went with a static site/blog generator jekyll and used minimal mistakes as theme. It's hosted on github pages and all I have to do is push a commit and my website automatically gets updated
My website and portfolio are still incomplete but I can provide my stack thing.
For the old one
How are you finding using Gatsby? It’s something I was considering when I redo mine.
Great. It does a great job creating blogs. With Gatsby, you can use data sources you like. Customization is easy.
Gatsby also provides adequate starter kits and plugins. You don't need to worry about Webpack config so much.
I used (headless) wordpress and gatsby to build my blog @ byteschool.io. Wordpress is self-hosted, frontend is running on Netlify.
How do find using headless WordPress? I did a fair number of projects using WordPress in the past and being able to decouple the front & backend would have been nice.
The WordPress REST API is very good now. I built a site using WP as the backend for my client to manage custom post types and then Axios with VueJS for the front-end. For me at the time, not having to build a CMS was a good thing.
It was alright! A Gatsby plugin did most of the work in terms of hooking things up and fetching data.I'm not an expert at WordPress so customising some things was harder for me, but should be easier for you 😊
That sounds quite useful actually. I've a project due to begin in the new year that we were going to use Markdown for part of it, but I'll take a look at AsciiDoc as an alternative. Especially if it is easier to extend.
I used Gatsby for my site Up Your A11y for very specific reasons that I wrote about here
A problem only Gatsby could solve?
Suzanne Aitchison (she/her) ・ Sep 2 ・ 5 min read
I'm using Gatsby again now for some other side projects, and I gotta say I do love it. It gives you so much speed optimisation for free and it plays nicely with lots of CMS options.
Thanks for that!
As an aside, definitely going to keep your site bookmarked to reference when it comes to a11y.
Thanks for kicking off this interesting thread, Jacob :-).
CloudCannon
Just to share. I'm currently moving my website/portfolio from WordPress to CloudCannon. More on the why behind this move here if you are interested.
Jekyll has built-in support for Liquid. Liquid comes from the developers of Shopify.
If I'm not mistaken, this site (DEV.to) uses Jekyll dev.to/p/editor_guide
I used the Jekyll Minimal Mistakes theme (excellent theme BTW). My customisations so far are in JavaScript and SCCS.
Here's the work in progress caughtmyeye.dev
Netlify
I'm using Netlify to host my PWA work. These projects aren't fully baked yet. But, here's a preview.
Comments are welcomed! ;-)
Today my site is available on https and dat (Dat browser like Beaker or DatFox is required). I also plan to make it available on IPFS soon.
Personal pet project: factualsearch.news
Thanks for sharing your experience with Algolia, Diane. :-)
I've got Lunr running on my Jekyll site. It was a cinch to set up. But, I'm not getting the same precision results with my Google Custom Search implementations. So, I thought about giving Algolia a try. Just like you mentioned, Algolia is more of a kludge to get up and running. But, it's still on my queue to give it a go.
I'll let you know if I ever get around to it.
Just set my new blog online (ophasnoname.de). After years with Wordpress or Hugo i decided to use something other. My new blog runs with Laravel (PHP Framework) and some packages to parse Markdown. The blog runs without any database, anything is based on the filesystem.
i'm using material-ui kit, github and netlify for deploy my personal website:
maksumrifai.github.io
maksumrifai.netlify.com
using Wordpress CMS & Hostinger for business website:
desainerhub.com
Mantab! Hostinger--keren. Selamat ;-)
Good old HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS. I actually used Materialize for my UI.
Sometimes simple works best, no need to overcomplicate!
NetlifyCMS (also experimented with closed source Forestry.io) with a Jekyll static site, hosted on github and or netlify.
github.com/shushugah/shushugah.git...
shushugah.com
Really like that. Would you mind if I showed it to my students as a good example of an online CV? It's amazing the number of them that don't have anything online.
I used React, Gatsby, React Material UI, Disqus and Netlify.
chadalen.com
I like it! Only thing is the image on the homepage could do with nudging down a little, the top is being cut off by the banner.
Appreciate the feedback gonna fix that :)
danaottaviani.com/
I like using VueJS and came across Gridsome. It gives you the option to use GraphQL. I didn't create the design though, it was a premade template.
My blog is currently NOT using a Metalsmith static website generator where the build script and my plugins are written in typescript. Seems most plugins for it is out-of-date, but its darn easy to write plugins for it myself.
I'm just about to publish it but I'm stuck on styling it. As usual.
Hi Jacob. I went with VueJS. I want to move over to Laravel, saw that VueJS is a recommendation, and went off to learn that first. workalicious.com I'm using Foundation for a CSS framework.
Do you think there is a benefit to using one over the other? Or is it more a case of a learning experience?
For me it was learning experience and my available time to learn something new. I started to learn Laravel back in v4 (I think it was). When I finally got back around to learning a version of 5x I saw VueJS and that sent me off to find out about VueJS.
I'm a freelancer, trying to stay billable, but dedicate some other time to learning. Repeating is the hard part in that case. I'd get busy and not get back to the learning for a while. I'm hunkered and deteremined now to make Laravel/VueJS LAMP my stack. One thing that has changed for my daily work is to keep logs of what I do within a project, huge help to go back and read stuff where I'm explaining to my future-self what I did.
Oh I like the idea of keeping a log of what you do to refer back to in the future. So much can get lost in the haze of a project.
Going to try Github, Netlify, Gatbsy and for the CSS TailwindCSS. A combination of this.
Seems to be a popular tech stack at the moment!
I've not come across AsciiDoc before, why are you thinking of switching to it from Markdown?
Great job. Thanks for sharing your work. Your site is very clean, minimal, and "performant".
Question though--I noticed you opted out of showing some of the images on a mobile viewport. Namely the "staggered" layout ones and your portrait photos.
Was this by design? What was your motivation behind this decision, if so?
Thanks!
Where's the Hugo crowd? I fell in love with that framework. Push to Gitlab, host in Render for free. All automatic. The hardest part is coming up with content
I like it! Sometimes it is easier to just keep it simple.
This is really nice, I like the simple and clean design. I am starting to learn and about to start JS and it's good to see what people are creating.
I used Gatsby, I think if you have any knowledge of React then Gatsby is the best tool for the job.
I built this a time ago.
That's really cool, good job! Really is looking like the Gatsby rabbit hole is where I'm about to jump.
I've been working on one with Vue.js, the one it's replacing was just an HTML file. I think both were good solutions to what I wanted.
Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS :]
Hosted on Github Pages.
I used Bootstrap for mine and hosted on Namecheap!
natalieastroud.com/
Namecheap are my preferred domain registrar (not spon)!
I really need to give Netlify a go, it seems to be used everywhere!
My portfolio is develop with React and Reactstrap with bootstrap components.
bonfiglioalessio.github.io
Nice! I do like the bold colour palette.
Using Gatsby + Netlify CMS + Gitlab Pages hosting. Works nice so far. vbelolapotkov.com
Gatsby + Netlify (CMS, hosting, and form) + Circle-CI
heyayush.com
Doesn't always need to use obscure/fancy tech; looks really neat!
Vue + Gridsome 🚀
shayaulman.netlify.com
Are you finding React better suited to what you're after?
I built mine with html, css, and js for the mailchimp sign up form. I wanted to really hone my basic skills so I went vanilla with this site.
It is hosted on GitHub pages.
CPureMake.tv