Portfolio Generator

Generate a static portfolio website suitable for uploading to serverless hosting.

Data, where to put it

Store your projects in the /work folder using this naming mechanism: /work/{year}/{project} where {year} is the year the work was released and {project} is the all-lowercase, no spaces name for your project.

So, if you did Charcoal Portraiture in 2022 you'd create a folder named portraiture-with-charcoal inside a 2022 folder inside work.

Store media for your project in a subfolder, {project}/media. Images and video that sit in that directory will automatically show up as media in your project gallery.

Video media best practices

I suggest keeping any video larger than 10MB on a video hosting service.

Supported video services:

• Cloudflare Stream - Create a text file in your media folder with the filename of your video followed by .cfstream.json. For example: my-video.mp4.cfstream.json. Copy and paste the contents from the JSON tab of the video's configuration in Cloudflare Stream.

You can keep the original video file in a new subfolder named !etc if you want to keep it close. Any file or folder that contains an ! exclamation point will be ignored.

Previewing and devloping your site

Run npm run dev and your project will continuously update as you edit the contents of work.

Generating the static site

1. run npm run build

2. When complete, you can copy the contents of the build folder to your web host

Uploading to your web host

I use Digital Ocean's free app hosting. But you can also upload to IPFS.