Building a Better Portfolio: My Open-Source Next.js Portfolio Builder

What's Under the Hood?

This isn't just a simple template. It's a robust development environment designed to streamline your workflow. Here's a peek at some of the key features:

🚀 Blazing Fast, Incremental Builds: Thanks to Yarn Workspaces and a smart build system, only the packages that have changed are rebuilt. This means significantly faster build times, especially as your portfolio grows.

🧩 Reusable UI Components: Create a library of custom React components and easily share them across all your portfolio projects. No more copy-pasting the same code over and over!

🤖 Automation is Your Friend: I've included scripts to automate the boring stuff, like generating new example projects and UI packages. Just run yarn create:example or yarn create:package, answer a few prompts, and you're good to go.

🎨 Styling Made Easy with Tailwind CSS: Tailwind's utility-first approach makes styling a breeze. Get your portfolio looking sharp without writing a ton of custom CSS.

✨ Clean Code Out of the Box: ESLint and Prettier are pre-configured to keep your code consistent and error-free.

Why I Built This (And Why You Might Care)

Honestly, I was tired of the usual portfolio project setup. Each project lived in its own silo, with its own dependencies and configuration. Sharing code between projects was a hassle, and keeping everything up-to-date was a nightmare.

This Portfolio Builder solves those problems by:

Centralizing configuration: Manage ESLint and TypeScript settings from the root of the project.

Providing a consistent development environment: Work on all your portfolio examples within a single, unified workspace.

Encouraging code reuse: Easily share components and utilities between projects.

Simplifying updates: Update dependencies and configurations in one place.

Get Involved!

This project is 100% open source, and I'd be thrilled to have you contribute! Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, there are plenty of ways to get involved:

⭐ Star the repo on GitHub:

PlutonusDev / nextjs-portfolio-builder

A powerful and flexible monorepo template designed to streamline the creation and management of your web design portfolio.

nextjs-portfolio-builder is a powerful and flexible monorepo template designed to streamline the creation and management of your web design portfolio. It leverages the latest web technologies, including Next.js, Yarn Workspaces, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, to provide a robust and scalable development environment.

Overview

This project provides a well-organized structure for showcasing multiple web design examples, each as a separate Next.js application within a unified Yarn workspace. It also includes utilities for easily creating reusable UI component packages that can be shared across your examples.

Features

Monorepo with Yarn Workspaces: Manage multiple Next.js example projects and shared packages efficiently in a single repository.
Next.js: Build fast, SEO-friendly, and scalable React applications for each of your portfolio examples.
TypeScript: Enhance code quality, maintainability, and developer experience with static typing.
Tailwind CSS: Rapidly style your components and examples using a utility-first CSS framework.
Automated Package and Example Creation: Use…

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🛠️ Use the builder to create your own portfolio: Let me know what you think!

🐛 Report bugs or suggest features: Open an issue on GitHub.

💻 Contribute code: Submit a pull request with fixes or new features.