year
2025
Overview
For years I'd been running my personal site on Wordpress. Hosted on Dreamhost meant that everything (PHP, Wordpress, plugins & themes) always kept up-to-date automatically. But even with best practices in place it felt slow.
So I decided to overhaul it to achieve a faster site.
Goals
- Speed - It had to be fast and I wanted to get as close to a perfect Lighthouse score as possible.
- Modern - I wanted to utilize the latest tech, Nuxt, Tailwind, and GSAP for subtle animations & micro-interactions.
- Learn something new - Get out of my comfort zone and try new things.
Process
I wanted to stick with Vue but take it a step further and explore the Nuxt ecosystem which up to this point I hadn't really had a chance or reason to use.
Choosing Nuxt lead me to Nuxt UI which brought with it Tailwind. I also wanted to host on Vercel as I felt that would get me closer to that perfect Lighthouse score.
Technologies Utilized
| Frontend |
|---|
| Nuxt |
| Vue 3 |
| Nuxt UI |
| Tailwind |
| GSAP |
| TypeScript |
Outcome
The result was a fast and modern portfolio.
100
Performance
100
Accessibility
100
Best Practices
100
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