MLH Fellow Portfolio Builder

Portfolio builder that can be used by subsequent MLH fellows to enhance their profiles.

What it does

The website can be used by students, professionals to create their portfolio real quick. It can be used to boost their profile and present their skills in a very interactive way to the recruiters.

How we built it

We created different pages like

• homepage has a short bio of the person.
• about page which describes the person's profile in detail.
• contacts page which can be used to directly contact the person via email.
• we also added some hyperlinks like LinkedIn, Github.

Installation

Make sure you have python3 and pip installed

Create and activate virtual environment using virtualenv

For Mac/Linux:

$ python -m venv python3-virtualenv
$ source python3-virtualenv/bin/activate

For Windows:

python -m venv python3-virtualenv
python3-virtualenv\Scripts\activate

Use the package manager pip to install all dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Create a .env file using the example.env template

For Mac/Linux:

Start flask development server

$ export FLASK_ENV=development
$ flask run

For Windows:

set FLASK_ENV=development
flask run

Challenges we ran into

We faced issues in the design part of the project as we mostly jumped to the technical part quickly. We had troubles doing the CSS part and felt the lack of time to host it on a. domain

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of us learning new technologies like CSS, HTML, Python, and Flask in a span of 2 days. Coming out of comfort zones and collaborating in different time zones, we learned to work in a team and always support each other.

What we learned

The first week was intense and we loved the implementation-oriented approach. We learned many technologies ranging from CSS, HTML, Python, Flask. We loved collaborating and debugging each other's code.

What's next for MLH Fellow Portfolio Builder

The website could be made more dynamic with users giving inputs and set up their profiles as we do in LinkedIn, and the portfolio would be ready.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.