/personal-portfolio

My first attempt at building a personal portfolio site.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

My Personal Portfolio Site

Well.. This is self explanatory I guess 🤷‍♂️

Check it out at: johnroussos.me

The what

I learned a lot building this site, mainly how to create complex animation such as the "magnet" effect I used in the links or the smooth scrolling on the page horizontal and vertical.

The how

I used:

gsap for all the animations in the page.
react-intersection-observer for triggering some actions.
react-device-detect for serving different versions of the page in mobile and browser.
firebase for hosting, storage, database and analytics

Problems & solutions:

I was using the ticker functionality of gsap for the smooth scroll of the page and also the projects slider but I noticed that for some reason I was having a few droped frames here and there, and in firefox it was basically unusable (major lags). And the solution was to switch to a good old requestAnimationFrame.

To do next

This project is almost finished, however I have some more ideas that may end up in the final version.

  • Morph svg dot in other shapes depending the content
  • Add a marquee text as divider between sections
  • Render images dynamicaly
  • Connect firebase storage and database

In a later version I'm planning on building a detailed page for each project, containing specifics and characteristics for the project at stake.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 John Roussos

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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