Ricardo's Personal Website

✨ Recently upgraded to Nuxt 3 ✨

What is this?

TL;DR: This is the source code of [my personal website][], a JAMstack website made with Nuxt 3, TypeScript, TailwindCSS and a lot of coffee. ☕

• Nuxt 3 is a framework for creating modern web applications. It's built on top of Vue 3 and Vite, one of the fastest and most lightweight bundlers out there.
• TypeScript is used for its logic. It improves the developer experience and prevents the number of bugs in the application during development.
• TailwindCSS is used for styling the website. It's a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly prototyping your application.
• Nuxt Content is used for managing the content of the website, such as the blog posts.
• Vercel is used for hosting the website. It's a cloud platform for static sites and serverless functions.

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Getting started

For starting the dev server, you have multiple options:

1. Using an online development environment (most easy option)

You can use an online development environment to start developing right away. The benefits of using an online development environment is that you don't need to install anything locally on your machine. Just start hacking right away. Some of the online development environments I recommend are:

• Stackblitz
• GitHub Codespaces
• VSCode on the web

2. Using a local, containerized development environment (my preferred option)

If you're a more serious developer, you can use a local, containerized development environment.

The benefits of using a local, containerized development environment is that you don't need to install the right versions of Node.js, Yarn, Git, etc as it's all included, configured and ready to use in the container.

There are various ways to use a local, containerized development environment with this starter kit:

a) Using VSCode Remote Containers / Dev Containers

You can use VSCode with the Remote Containers / Dev Containers extension to start developing right away. With the right extensions installed, just open the project in VSCode and it will ask you if you want to open it in a container.

b) Using Docker Compose

You can use Docker Compose to start developing right away:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up

c) Using Docker (Method 1, building the image) You can use Docker to start developing right away:

1. Build image: docker build --no-cache -t ricardobalk/website:latest --target development -f Dockerfile .
2. Run image in container: docker run --rm -it -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/node/app:cached" ricardobalk/website:latest

d) Using Docker (Method 2, without building the image)

You can even use Docker without building the image from the Dockerfile. Just run the following command:

docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd):/app" -p 3000:3000 -w /app node:18.15.0-alpine3.16 yarn && yarn dev

Tip: Take a look at the Dockerfile and docker-compose.*.yml to see how the containers are set up. The dockerfile has a multi-stage build, to keep the final image as small as possible.

3. Using a local Node.js installation (when your machine has Node.js)

You can also use a local Node.js installation.

• yarn install to install the dependencies
• yarn dev to start the development server on http://localhost:3000
• yarn build to build the application for production
• yarn start to start the production server
• or yarn generate to generate the application for static hosting

See the official Nuxt 3 deployment documentation for more details.

License

ISC License