sudowatson / website

GitHub for the webserver I'm making

Portfolio Website

Hosted at austinlennert.dev

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Built With
• Features
• Acknowledgements
• Changelog

Overview

This website was developed to be my portfolio through my Software Development career. It shows off a few of my favorite projects I've worked on, several skills I have, and a way to contact me. Each project section contains a small description, a link to its GitHub repository, and a link to the site if applicable. This project is by far the largest and most complete one I've worked on, and it has been an amazing project to work on and one I will continue to flesh out as time goes on. Additionally, this project has been used to teach myself a load of new-to-me technologies such as Docker, GitHub Actions, React, etc.

Built With

React for the front end, Express for the back end. All contained inside a Docker container. Programmed in TypeScript. GitHub actions automatically builds and pushes a Docker image upon updating the website.

Skills

TypeScript, React, Express, Node.js, GitHub Actions, Docker, Docker-Compose, Servers

Features

• Built entirely from scratch
• React front-end
• Express back-end
• List of projects with links to code
• List of skills
• Contact form
• Auto-building Docker images upon update
• Automatically reload the website when a newer image is available

website's Issues

Add Dockerhub Link

Add a link next to GitHub link to DockerHub

Add more skills

Need to add more of my skills.
To add:

• C#
• C++
• ASP.Net
• React?
• Node.js
• Docker
• XAML

Make front text fancy typing animation

Make the home text that says "Hi I'm Austin Lennert" do that typing animation so it looks like it gets typed on the screen

.env Variables Unavailable on Pulled Docker

Because of how React works, environment variables are baked into the code when built. This built code is what is put into a docker image, and thus what is used on the server. Since the .env file is not pushed into the Github, the file is not there for the values to be baked into code when built, so the variables needed for the EmailJS service are not present when the server is ran from Docker. Possible I could add them as secrets into Github Actions, but either way this was never a good solution as the secrets were all embedded in the public js code. Thinking of using a PHP page instead to handle the email request. This means I may need to use Expressjs to handle the routing, or look into whether or not NGinx can help with this