Nelsonlai.me
My personal website built with TypeScript, Next.js, and TailwindCSS
Overview
Welcome to the fascinating world of a personal blog repository that not only showcases creativity but also demonstrates a modern approach to web development. This monorepo serves as the backbone of a personal space where thoughts, projects, and insights converge, providing both inspiration and informative content. The combination of cutting-edge technologies and thoughtful design features ensures that readers have not just a place to read, but an enjoyable experience while doing so.
This blog utilizes a variety of tools and frameworks that enhance functionality and user engagement, making it a standout project in the open-source community. Whether you're a fellow developer seeking to contribute or simply someone looking to get inspired by fresh ideas, this repository offers a wealth of resources at your fingertips.
Features
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Core Technologies: Built with Next.js 15 featuring the App Router, this project utilizes TypeScript for robust coding practices and Tailwind CSS for sleek styling.
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Content Management: Leverages MDX for easy content management, allowing seamless integration of Markdown and JSX.
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Internationalization Support: Equipped with I18n for global reach, making the blog accessible to a diverse audience.
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Engaging UI/UX: Features Radix UI components for accessibility and a responsive design that adapts to different screen sizes, complemented by Light/Dark mode options.
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Interactive Blog Features: Includes a sophisticated comment system, like functionality, post view counters, and search capabilities to enhance user interaction.
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Performance & SEO: Achieves a near-perfect Lighthouse score, ensuring optimal performance, while being well-optimized for search engines with meta tags and JSON-LD schema.
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Testing & Development Tools: Employs Vitest for unit and integration testing, and Playwright for end-to-end testing, ensuring a robust development experience.
- Next.js
Next.js is a React-based web framework that enables server-side rendering, static site generation, and other powerful features for building modern web applications.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Drizzle ORM
Drizzle ORM is a TypeScript ORM for SQL databases designed with maximum type safety in mind. It comes with a drizzle-kit CLI companion for automatic SQL migrations generation. Drizzle ORM is meant to be a library, not a framework. It stays as an opt-in solution all the time at any levels.
- Blog
Blog websites feature posts written by one or more authors, organized by categories and tags, with a section for comments and archives sorted by date or topic. Additional features may include search bar, social media sharing, subscription or RSS feed, about and contact pages, and visual content.
- Portfolio
A portfolio website is a type of website that showcases an individual's or a company's work, skills, and accomplishments. It typically includes a gallery of images or videos, case studies, and client testimonials to provide potential clients or employers with a comprehensive overview of their experience and expertise.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- MDX
MDX is a format that allows developers to write JSX within Markdown documents, combining the power of React with the simplicity of Markdown. This allows for the creation of dynamic and interactive content that can be easily shared and consumed across different platforms and devices.
- Turborepo
Turbo is an incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
- Vercel
Vercel offers built-in support for deploying and hosting Next.js applications, making it a popular choice among Next.js developers.
