Clara Le.
About this website
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Disclaimer: I built this website as a super newbie to everything mentioned below. I used a lot of copy-pasting lack the right terminology and best practices—so don't take my word for it.
The big picture
I envision this website as my personal corner of the internet—my very own playground. I am experimenting on it and have a few things planned ahead. Check out the Roadmap to know more.
Feel free to send me any feedback / improvement ideas on Twitter @clara__le or directly File an issue on Github.
Building Blocks
- Robin might be the most important part of the equation, as I am always pestering him with questions—thank you!
- blog starter example I used as a foundation (it already includes many of the following integrations out of the box)
- Statically generated with Next.js and deployed with Vercel
- gray-matter to parse front matter and convert it into an object
- next-mdx-remote to enable the use of JSX and components in MDX files
- dates-fns to manipulate dates
- Fontsource to easily set up self-hosted font bundles
- The typefaces I use are Vesper Libre from the Mota Italic foundry (check out its creation process) and Source Sans Pro designed by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe.
- Open Library API to get book covers and information for the Books and Antilibrary pages
- TMDb API to get movie posters and information for the movies page
I will keep this list as updated as possible, but the source of truth lies in the package.json.
Tools & Extensions
This list will be useless for more seasoned coders, but might be handy for someone just starting out—past me would have appreciated it.
- Visual Studio Code is apparently the code editor
- GitHub to host the source code of my website
- Prettier as a code formatter (VS Code extension)
- MDX adds syntax highlighting for MDX files (VS Code extension)
- Insert Date String just makes it easier to insert the current ISO date with Shift + Cmd + I (VS Code extension)
