After years of ‘thinking’ about it, I’ve finally sat myself down and quickly put together my very own personal webpage. Why did it take me so long?
For the longest time, I always thought I didn’t need one. I’m also cheap and didn’t want to host it somewhere. That was my thoughts for a long time until recently.
Recently, I’ve decided to dive into React JS. Prior to that, I’ve only been developing mostly around backend microservices, creating APIs and managing data. I picked up React because I needed to built a tool for the team to manage configurations better. So, I decided to take this chance to pick it up.
At the time, I was only referring to https://reactjs.org/ to get started and I used https://mui.com/ as my source of reference to quickly put together a dashboard to manage configuration.
Looking back at that project, I think the initial packaging of the project was horrendous. I package my files like how I would with my Java projects. I realise now what I did then doesn’t work well but it fulfills the requirement. It wasn’t until I come across other React project, templates and examples that I start to realise there is a cleaner way to write and package the files.
One thing led to another and I realise how quickly I can actually put together my own personal webpage now that I have some experience with React. https://www.netlify.com/ makes it extremely easy to deploy a React application as well. At this point I know all the tools, I just needed to spend some time to put it together. And so I did. I spend a few evenings converting my CV to a personal webpage. I did a quick one just to prove to myself I could do this quickly and I can continue to improve and add feature to it.
You can find my page here https://vincent-lim.netlify.app/
I will talk about what I did and what tools I used to get this all setup in a future post.
