Hello, and welcome to my README! This is for my Week 20 Challenge, which was to create a Portfolio using React. I learned a lot while doing this, and I am happy to be able to share my experience with you.
Check out my portfolio here...
It was my job to ensure my Portfolio had the following features and met these qualifications:
- be an SPA (Single Page Application)
- have navigation titles for:
- About Me - with recent photo and short bio. I included a link for a downloadable resume here
- Contact - a form where the user enters name, email and message
- Project Categories
- Header, Nav, Project, and Footer components
I was to create this Portfolio, and meet all of the requirements listed above, by using:
- React.js
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
I completed this project as a low stakes and personal way to practice using React.js.
Features:
There is no installation required. Just visit React Portfolio
Here are some user experience highlights from my page:
- navigation buttons for "ABOUT ME" and "CONTACT" which open corresponding "About Me" and "Contact Me" sections
- navigation buttons for projects, broken down into specific categories
- modals that open when an image is clicked on. Title, description, and links to live url and github repository
These are some sources I used to help me along:
- React.js
- Google Fonts
- Font Awesome for React
- How to use Google Fonts in React.js?
- Add link to Font Awesome icon in React
- Download CV by direct download
Here are the highlights of what I learned and issues I had while writing this code.
- Relearning aspects of HTML and applying them to JSX, like how to import font and icon libraries without having a head section to add them to
- The webpage automatically reloading whenever you save the file is very handy
- Having to do front end/ aesthetic coding again was kind of a shock to the system. It had been so long, and I found making the website actually look good and how I wanted it took longer than making the website functional.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2021 Devin Jones
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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