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My first portfolio with React and AWS

Georgina Grey on July 29, 2018

Hi dev.to! So, I built my first portfolio and thought about documenting the process, but before jumping in, a disclaimer: I believe in choosing t...
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Sarah Chima

Hey Georgina, your portfolio looks beautiful. I love the layout.

In the "Let's talk" section, you can try increasing the height of your input fields and the font-size of the text since there are no labels. A good rule is always to add labels though. It's great nevertheless.👍

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Georgina Grey

You're right, small details I tend to miss sometimes. Thanks for bringing it up!

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Sarah Chima

You are welcome

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sandywilkins • Edited

Hola! Qué bueno encontrar una tica por aquí! Me pasas los recursos que le mencionas a Chad de trabajo remoto (el email es mi usuario aquí + "cr" al final, at gmail)? Pequeño typo: "trabajando en bases de daños". Pura vida!

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Georgina Grey

Hola! Claro voy a buscarlos. Jaja a pesar de haber leído eso mil veces no sé cómo se me escapó, gracias. Al rato fue un mensaje del subconsciente 😂 saludos!

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sandywilkins

😆

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Chad

On an unrelated note...I’d love to learn how you are monetizing your coding/development and living overseas. I’ve been considering it for some time, and I’m always interested in tapping someone’s brain on the subject. Any input is appreciated!

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Georgina Grey

Hi Chad. I'm actually from Costa Rica. But I do remote work nevertheless, so it doesn't matter where I do it from.

There's many developers that are 'digital nomads'. I think a have a few resources I could share, in case you are not deep into that subject :)

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Kevin Wolf

Hey!

Congratulations, nice to see people from my same country doing nice things!, it looks like you are going the right way and using the right tools (although I would have chosen Netlify).

Now that you are diving into front end development I would recommend you to take a look at css grid (cssgridgarden.com/#es).

Any react question you have, you are more than welcome to ping me at GitHub or Twitter.

Pura vida!

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Georgina Grey

Thank you! That looks cool, I will start gardening soon enough 😁🌱

Saludos!

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Alex Firestorm

Wonderful website however on lower resolution than 1080p the text on the second menu item bugs out on my second monitor.

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Georgina Grey

Thank you! I'll check it out, thanks for the heads up.

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Fajar Andi Patappari

Hey congratulation on your first portofolio. It looks beautifull.

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Georgina Grey

Hi Fajar! Thanks for checking it out :)

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Sid Sarasvati

Very cool. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience, especially the AWA bits!

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Georgina Grey

Thank you! Glad you find it useful.

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Ionut Milica • Edited

Good work! 👏
One thing you may want to add is a IntersectionObserver polyfill if you plan to support non Chrome/Firefox browsers 😄

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Georgina Grey

I knew I was forgetting something! Thanks for the reminder.

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Ernesto Chaves

Awesome job.

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Georgina Grey

Thank you for checking it out! :)

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Johannes Loewe

Looks nice 👍

However I'm on mobile(Chrome on an iPhone) and clicking on "experience" completely breaks the site to the point of having to refresh it.

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Georgina Grey

Oh! That ain't good. I'll see if I can reproduce it, thanks a lot!

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Kyle Galbraith

Great write up Georgina. If you are looking to expand on this to learn more AWS, check out my book or feel free to ping me with any questions.

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Georgina Grey

Thank you Kyle, this is great, AWS can still get a bit overwhelming at times. I'll look into it.

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Peter Mcteague

It looks really good! Great job! As someone who's just getting into frontend development I think your portfolio does a lot of things right and it's provided me with some inspiration.

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Georgina Grey

Thank you Peter! There's some edge cases I'll be working on, but I'm happy you can get inspired from it :)

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Eka

Nice post describing your work process! Just would like to point out the footer is displayed oddly on Chrome 67, OS X 10 -- thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i...

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Georgina Grey

You're right, I moved the footer outside it's original parent while testing something else, so it broke :P

Thank you. I'll be pushing the CDN Invalidation in a bit.

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dukemai

Hey Georgina, your site is beautiful and creative. thanks for your sharing your work.

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Georgina Grey

Hi! Thank you very much 🤗

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Jorge Araya

Se ve chiva la vara, pv!

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Georgina Grey

Gracias! 😎

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Thidasa Pankaja Paranavitharana • Edited

Hey, Just checked your portfolio. It looks nice. But seems like there's some issues with alignments.

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Georgina Grey

Thanks for the feedback Thidasa, turns out I moved some components around while testing something and that caused the issue. Is fixed now :)

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squidbe

Just one minor correction: it's TTL (time to live) rather than TLL.

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Georgina Grey

Of course! I fixed it, thanks!

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Jose Chavarría

Demasiado Chiva te quedó !

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Georgina Grey

Hey, muchas gracias :)

Pura vida!

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Ayman Azm

Amazing and seamless