Modern Portfolio

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Developer Portfolio & Blog

Astro React TailwindCSS TypeScript

A modern, high-performance personal portfolio and blog built with Astro.js. Designed to showcase your projects and technical writing with blazing-fast performance and exceptional SEO.

✨ Features

  • πŸš€ Blazing fast performance - Built with Astro.js for optimal loading speeds
  • πŸ“ Full-featured blog - Support for technical articles with code highlighting
  • 🎨 Beautiful UI - Modern, responsive design powered by Tailwind CSS
  • πŸŒ™ Dark mode support - Seamless light/dark theme switching
  • πŸ“± Fully responsive - Looks great on all devices from mobile to desktop
  • πŸ” SEO optimized - Structured data, meta tags, and optimized for search engines
  • 🏷️ Tag system - Categorize blog posts and projects with tags
  • πŸ“Š Content collection - Organized content management with Astro’s content collections
  • πŸ–ΌοΈ Project showcase - Display your work with images, descriptions, and technology tags

πŸ› οΈ Tech Stack

  • Astro.js - Static site generator with excellent performance
  • React.js - For interactive components
  • Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework
  • TypeScript - Type safety and improved developer experience
  • MDX - Markdown with JSX for rich content creation
  • Preact - Lightweight alternative to React for UI components

πŸ“‹ Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have the following installed:

βš™οΈ Installation & Setup

  1. Clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/cojocaru-david/portfolio.git
    cd portfolio
  2. Install dependencies

    npm install
    # or
    yarn install
  3. Start the development server

    npm run dev
    # or
    yarn dev
  4. Open your browser Navigate to http://localhost:4321 to see the site running locally.

πŸ“ Project Structure

portfolio/
β”œβ”€β”€ public/ # Static assets
β”œβ”€β”€ src/
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ components/ # UI components
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ content/ # Content collections
β”‚ β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ blog/ # Blog posts in MD/MDX format
β”‚ β”‚ └── projects/ # Project data
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ layouts/ # Page layouts
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ lib/ # Utility functions
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ pages/ # Page routes
β”‚ └── styles/ # Global styles
β”œβ”€β”€ astro.config.mjs # Astro configuration
β”œβ”€β”€ tailwind.config.cjs # Tailwind CSS configuration
β”œβ”€β”€ tsconfig.json # TypeScript configuration
└── package.json # Project dependencies

πŸš€ Usage

Creating a Blog Post

  1. Create a new .mdx or .md file in src/content/blog
  2. Add frontmatter with title, description, date, tags, and authors
  3. Write your content using Markdown and MDX components
---
title: "Your Post Title"
description: "A brief description of your post"
date: 2025-04-20
tags: ["tag1", "tag2", "tag3"]
authors: ["Your Name", "Co-author (optional)"]
---
 
# Your Post Title
 
Write your content here using Markdown.
 
## Subheading
 
More content...
 

Adding a Project

  1. Create a new .md file in projects
  2. Add project details including name, description, tags, and image path

πŸŒ™ Dark Mode

The project includes dark mode support using Tailwind CSS and Preact. It detects user preferences and applies the appropriate theme, with an option to toggle between light and dark modes.

πŸ“Š Data Utilities

The project includes several utility functions in data-utils.ts:

  • getAllPosts() - Retrieve all blog posts
  • getRecentPosts(count) - Get the most recent posts
  • getAdjacentPosts(currentId) - Get next and previous posts
  • getAllTags() - Get all tags used in posts
  • getSortedTags() - Get tags sorted by usage count
  • getPostsByAuthor(authorId) - Get all posts by a specific author

🀝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

  1. Fork the repository
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
  5. Open a Pull Request

πŸ“„ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.