Personal Portfolio (v3) for Alex King | Software Engineer

Introduction

My portfolio began on a quiet Sunday morning at my local coffee shop. The aim was to make a stylistically unique and calm website to communicate my interests, values, as well as technical skills and offerings to new and existing clients.

Overview

By approaching this project from scratch with little outside design reference (I started with paper and pen), I was able to create a unique portfolio layout and design that aligns with my style, skills, and values. The color choice for this site (inspired by my local coffee shop) helps reinforce one of my core goals with this project - to communicate a calm and authentic energy.

Designed and developed by Alex King

Technology Used

• React Hooks
• NextJS
• Styled Components
• Flat File Markdown CMS
• MailChimp
• Package management: yarn

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

• Clone github repository onto your local machine
• Change directory into root/client.
• Run yarn yarn install
• Start Next application yarn dev to run locally.

Environment Variables

• No environment variables are currently required for this project.