This is the repo for my portfolio site, adamjolicoeur.com, hosted on GitHub.
I'm a user experience designer with a passion for creating data-intensive designs. With a background in web development, I enjoy turning my designs into living, usable products.
I decided to build my own portfolio site on GitHub, rather than on a less code-oriented platform, in order to keep my skills sharp, up-to-date, and to do everything in the open.
I used Figma for designing the site, VSCode with iTerm for development, NodeJS as the runtime environment with Eleventy as the site generator, and Bootstrap as the toolkit.
For designing my portfolio, I used Figma so that I could design in the open using the latest technology.
This site is built using Eleventy+Nunjucks with Bootstrap 5 as the frontend toolkit. Custom CSS is applied in order to create a personalized experience.
The project uses NodeJS as it's runtime environment. Currently, 22.6.0 is the latest version is use and is set using Node Version Manager (NVM). To set a local environment, enter nvm use into a terminal while inside of the project folder. You must have node installed on your machine with nvm
Automation is handled by GitHub Actions, which sets Labels for pull requests and Releases versioning. I use Netlify to create pull request previews.
Releases are done via the release-drafter GitHub Action. Release notes are automatically generated from the pull request title and description.
At the moment this repo is very personalized to my needs and my information, so I would not recommend it. I will be creating a template in the near future, which I will welcome anyone to use and contribute to.
Libraries
Eleventy