This portfolio

Wanted to remake my portfolio but with better technos, connection to a db in order to allow me to manage projects, and make a more coherent style (cf. "Previous portfolio" project to understand)

First step: I have tried to find inspiration throught the web and I found many. An exemple could be Hen³ portfolio. I wanted to keep also a bit of the energy of my previous portfolio and let's start the project!

As i made for my first portfolio, I decided to take advantage of this opportunity to learn a new technology. This is how I choose remix V2 (= react router v7) to make my new project. I found it while looking for new technologies on the web and what catched me is the modern lookbook and perfectly corresponding use case.

I started to develop using react router v7 (remix v2) which is a SSR framework of React. Now there is remix v3.

One important mistake that I wanted to avoid is the pages coherency. In my previous portfolio, discovering React offered me too many possibilities and therefore my pages were missing of coherency in the animations, etc.

Since I started coding my portfolio, I have thought things through meticulously and gradually added content, Easter eggs, animations, and so on.

(Everything could be a button)

To explore a maximum of solutions possibilities, I decided to choose a database service that I never used before. Indeed, I choose Supabase to store my projects datas, etc. But this choice wasn't really relevant because Supabase's free offer allows to get a postgreSQL that automatically shutdown without a connection of the owner every 2 weeks.

Not the best practical choice!

I decided to use again the same API that I used in my first portfolio : Web3Forms. It is a free API for receiving email but it wasn't working well :'( Because it wasn't me priority, I juste made a fallback to prepare an email to my address

Now you got the method : if (already_found_the_best_solution) { reuse_it() } else { search_a_new_solution() } So previously hosting my portfolio on github pages and found vercel solution that is currently the best solution I have found. It is directly linking to a github repository and allow to set a CI/CD workflow, get analytics and speed metrics for free!

Curently nothing better then Vercel ?!

To buy my first domain name, I used Hostinger because it got really competitive prices. Then easily rely on Vercel to, with a simple manipulation, link those twice and that's it!

cmourgue.fr

Since the production-ready state is in the previous step, I made a pause in the development of my portfolio. Nevertheless, fed up with having to log in to Supabase every two weeks and the inability to receive emails, I decided to replace my services : Supabase -> Firebase : Firebase got for free the possibility to use a 1GB noSQL database that is really performant. Also the NoSQL document format is more adapted to my project. So I found that it was the best choice and I have already used it in other porjects (after the previous step of this one). Web3Forms -> Resend : Resend is a free api that allow, linking with a domain name, to send and receive about 5,000 emails per month so obviously enough for my portfolio contact form!