This website is honestly more than a portfolio, it's more my personal playground on the internet. The idea behind it is that I'm going to be able to display basically anything I want here. Right now I just have a design portfolio, but in the future this could also be where I host a blog, I might have other portfolios for music or 3D rendering. It's also a way for me to keep learning new things with web development and it can also serve as a playground in that sense. The TL;DR is that this is going to be a place where I just kind of chronicle me.
Right now this is just an Express web server running on Node.js. It's being hosted on an AWS EC2 instance.
Because I didn't want to put another web server in front of Node.js, I needed to find a way to keep Node.js projects alive once the terminal connection closed. I did some digging and found PM2 on GitHub. This allows me to run the Node.js project by daemonizing the app and keeping it alive indefinitely. I thought it was helpful so I'll just talk about it here. It has a bunch of other useful features that I'm not currently taking advantage of and you can check that out on their repo.
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent