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Discussion on: I Got a Perfect Lighthouse Score on My First Portfolio Website!

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Jon Randy 🎖️

I would say you've used way too much tooling for such a simple website

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Maxime Moreau

Same point of view, but I think the idea was to use/learn technologies/tooling? I already did this for some personal websites so If the tech/tool is not good it's no big deal :)

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pris stratton

You reminded me of this;

motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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Pranav Birajdar

Hahaha, facts though! 😂

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Osazuwa J. Agbonze

I laughed reading this... real stuff 💯

Fact is humans appreciate fanciful and beautiful things. More so if we just sticked to the default of everything without pushing to make it more appealing ... advancement wouldn’t be a thing...

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Mateusz Kwiatkowski

Thanks a lot for this recommendation. It's gold :D

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Alonso Diaz

For recruiters, that's good

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Jon Randy 🎖️

TBH it's not. If I was looking at the site after receiving an application, I would be less likely to proceed further. Using the right tool for the right job is important

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Pranav Birajdar

Jon, though I agree that I do have tons of tooling, I feel like every tool has a specific purpose. For example, I used Next.js because I wanted a Static Site Generator, Tailwind because it's a CSS Framework that allowed me to build the site within a week, and TypeScript for type checking. I used a Markdown parser to parse my blog markdowns.

Besides Tailwind, I think most of the tooling was necessary. I'd love to know your thoughts.

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Pranav Birajdar

Absolutely! Totally agree with you on that. This could be a plain HTML, CSS, JS website.

However, my goal was to learn some new technologies, and I wasn't going to build another glorified todo app .

This project gave me a taste for Typescript, Next.js's static props and paths, rendering markdown files, and using a linter. I'm sure these tools could potentially be useful for me in the future.