I think it's very important to own your brand and have a domain online these days.
When building your own website:
- You can create a portfolio and build your image online
- You can explore different stacks from the ones you are using on a daily basis
- Lead with all aspects of a production app - buy a domain, choose a stack, how you're gonna host it, costs, devOps
- You can build things on your way - there's no daily meeting to report your progress ;)
Here's the journey of my personal website.
Version 1 (2021 - 2022)
The first version of my website was written in plain HTML and CSS with a few events in JavaScript. It was a one page site deployed on Firebase.
It was built after watching a tutorial from
@Bedimcode
Version 2 (2022 - current)
That's the current version of my website.
Everything is powered by Next.Js and components are written using React. Blog posts are written using Markdown. Deployment is made through Vercel.
Am I a React expert? Not at all!
I'm a guy from backend using C# and .NET. And, sincerely, I'm more familiar with Angular than React.
However, I saw how powerful Next.Js was and found out I could quickly build and deploy a blog combined with Vercel. That was my need at the moment. And of course, I saw it as an opportunity to learn the stack.
I discovered Next.Js after hearing from @zenorocha
The end?
Probably, that's not the end. My current website version is totally fresh and I'll be working to evolve it.
What about you? Ready to build your website?
Already have one? Share your thoughts!