itsjamesmurray.com

👋James' personal website using Vue CLI, TailwindCSS, Firebase, and Airtable.

Note 📓

I've made my code open source to inspire rookie programmers like myself to start learning. I was amazed at how quickly things started to click together once I started building a project of my own. This is the 3rd iteration of my blog.

1. Wordpress - Hated it. Felt too bloated for a simple blog and felt VERY early 2000s.
2. Custom Vue - This was fun as I learned a lot, but it was starting to get messy and was pieced together in some weird ways (using Airtable as an CMS). But SEO was a nightmare to try to solve for.
3. Gridsome - Super basic. SEO friendly. All I need for now.

I built this using the basic Gridsome template. It is a super basic UI but works well across devices and is simply a means to share my posts.

Todo ✏️

• Add CircleCI
• Add CircleCI tests
• Test on other devices
• Migrate to Gridsome
• Update styling for codeblocks
• Create Admin.vue for an admin section where I can write posts in the web UI.
• Add Google Analytics
• Add Google Analytics data in a dash available through Admin.vue

Contributing🤝

If you see any typos or formatting errors in a post, or any other issue that needs to be addressed, please do not hesitate to open a pull request and fix it!

Author

• James Murray

License

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.