Creating your own Links page in Nuxt

This is a quick code sample of how I created my own "Where to find me" page for my blog.

I'm using Nuxt, Font Awesome, and Tailwind (v2) but with minor adjustments you can adapt this to any stack of your liking 😊

My Social Component

I already had this component that I was using to show a list of Font Awesome Icons with links to my various social accounts around the internet and figured I would reuse it for my new links page.

After initial setup I realized I didn't have a way to link from my links page back to my actual blog, so I added it as a link and an isHome() computed property to check if the user was already on my home page or not.

<template>
  <div class="max-w-4xl mx-auto py-4 text-center">
    <h2 class="my-4 text-3xl font-display font-bold">
      Find me around the internet
    </h2>
    <ul
      class="flex flex-wrap justify-around max-w-lg mx-auto text-center list-none"
    >
      <li v-if="isHome" class="w-1/2 md:w-1/4 mt-4">
        <a href="https://terabytetiger.com/">
          <div>
            <font-awesome-icon
              :icon="['fas', 'home']"
              :style="{
                fontSize: '3rem',
              }"
              class="text-purple-0"
            />
          </div>
          Blog
        </a>
      </li>
      <li class="w-1/2 md:w-1/4 mt-4">
        <a href="https://dev.to/terabytetiger">
          <div>
            <font-awesome-icon
              :icon="['fab', 'dev']"
              :style="{
                fontSize: '3rem',
              }"
            />
          </div>
          Dev.to
        </a>
      </li>
      <li class="w-1/2 md:w-1/4 mt-4">
        <a href="https://github.com/TerabyteTiger">
          <div>
            <font-awesome-icon
              :icon="['fab', 'github']"
              :style="{
                fontSize: '3rem',
              }"
            />
          </div>
          Github
        </a>
      </li>
      <li class="w-1/2 md:w-1/4 mt-4">
        <a rel="me" href="https://dftba.club/@TerabyteTiger">
          <div>
            <font-awesome-icon
              :icon="['fab', 'mastodon']"
              :style="{
                fontSize: '3rem',
              }"
              class="text-blue-700"
            />
          </div>
          Mastodon
        </a>
      </li>
      <li class="w-1/2 md:w-1/4 mt-4">
        <a href="https://www.instagram.com/t.vanblargan/">
          <div>
            <font-awesome-icon
              :icon="['fab', 'instagram']"
              :style="{
                fontSize: '3rem',
              }"
              class="text-pink-500"
            />
          </div>
          Instagram
        </a>
      </li>
      <li class="w-1/2 md:w-1/4 mt-4">
        <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZeMnP2XoSh724u4v8Oskwg">
          <div>
            <font-awesome-icon
              :icon="['fab', 'youtube']"
              :style="{
                fontSize: '3rem',
              }"
              class="text-red-500"
            />
          </div>
          YouTube
        </a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  name: "Social",
  computed: {
    isHome() {
      return !(this.$route.fullPath === "/")
    },
  },
}
</script>

Over time as my usage of different social medias ebbs and flows, I tend to update my list and comment in/out the various links so that only sites I'm active on are listed.

The Links Page Layout

Once I had my Social component configured, I added a new Layout that would exclude my normal Header and Footer from the links page to keep it minimalistic.

<template>
  <div class="bg-gradient-to-br from-blue-400 to-purple-400 w-screen h-screen p-12">
    <Nuxt />
  </div>
</template>

The Links Page

Next I set up my Links page to be a simple card with the Social component and a fun shaped profile picture at the top.

<template>
  <div class="">
    <img
      src="/profileImg.png"
      alt="(your alt text goes here)"
      class="rounded-full h-48 mx-auto mb-8 py-4 filter drop-shadow-2xl"
    />
    <div
      class="bg-white mx-auto w-7/8 lg:w-1/2 rounded-lg p-4 filter drop-shadow-2xl"
    >
      <Social></Social>
    </div>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  layout: "links",
}
</script>

And that is all it took to get a central location I could link to from various social accounts!