Update my personal website from static bootstrap to ReactJS
Release Date: September 2019
Core Features:
- Fully templated design for easy extensibilty
- Data-driven page layouts.
- Lightweight NavBar system.
My original website I built over a few months sometime in 2015, and never really completed it. The board game and music sections remained ‘coming soon’ for about 5 years now – I don’t they’re coming. Looking to rebuild my website and give the layout a facelift, I settled on trying ReactJS. Front-end web work isn’t my strongest suit, but I enjoy hobby-level programming just as much as my work.
Overall I found the process of standing up a React app to very straightforward and enjoyable. React‘s paradigm of Components is more aligned with my background of J2EE development. The speed with which you can lay items out on a page with React was also very nice, I could adjust my page layouts for my website almost in real time, with a minimum of shifting code/functionality.
Also the Visual Code IDE was pleasant to work with, its workspace management being smooth to use. Configuring it to work with ES6 and JSX was simple enough, the plugin-oriented nature is one of Visual Code’s strong points.
update 2021: I’ve transitioned to WordPress for management and updating of my personal website.
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