Tara Larsen - Week 2 - Personal Portfolio Site

In week 2 of the MLH Site Reliability Engineering program, we made used the portfolio templates that we created in week one and made our own personal portfolio.

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Description

This is a portfolio showcases tells a little about me, my hobbies, work experience, locations that I've traveled to, and my web projects.

The portfolio template consists of 5 main components:

Landing page

Hero section with name, call to action button and image
About Me section with image and text area
Education section with school image, degree, major

Hobbies page

Cards with title, image and text area

Work Experience page

Cards with title, image and text area

Locations page

A Google API map that renders points that the user has visited

Projects showcase page

Cards that showcase projects that I've built

Technologies used in the project

The Python microframework Flask
HTML/CSS and Bootstrap
Jinja for templating
JavaScript for the responsive navigation and map creation
Google Maps API in JavaScript to mark locations visited in each profile page

File Structure

main
│   README.md                               # Explains this respository
|   LICENSE.md                              # Details of this project's MIT license
│   .gitignore                              # Files to be ignored by git
|   .python-version                         # Python version used to build the project
|   .env                                    # Environmental variables for API key and URL
|   requirements.txt                        # Requirements for Python dependencies to install using pip
│
└───app
    │   __init__.py                         # The Python init file that runs upon executing "flask run"
    │
    └───static
    |   └───fonts
    |   |   |   flux-regular.otf            # The same font style used by Python (free to use)
    |   |
    |   └───img
    |   |   |   (all images for website)    # Various images used in the project
    |   |
    |   └───scripts
    |   |   |   maps.js                     # Script that loads the Google Maps API into the DO
    |   |
    |   └───styles
    |   |   |   main.css                   # Custom styles for all pages
    └───templates
        |___ globaComps 
              | footer.html                # Displays copyright and social links
              | nav.html                   # Responsive navigation menu
        |___ landingPage
              | aboutMe.html               # Template that displays about me information
              | education.html             # Template that displays education section  
              | hero.html                  # Template that hero section  
        |   experience.html                # Template for the experience page
        |   hobbies.html                   # Template for that displays the hobbies page
        |   locations.html                 # Template that displays the Google Map
        |   pageOverlay.html               # Template for overlays in other pages
        |   landingPage.html               # Template that displays the landingPage

Installation

Using the command line, clone the repo on your machine

git clone <remote url copied from Github>
cd <repo directory name>

Make sure you have python3 and pip installed

Create and activate virtual environment using virtualenv

$ python -m venv python3-virtualenv
$ source python3-virtualenv/bin/activate

Use the package manager pip to install all dependencies!

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Create a .env file using the example.env template (make a copy using the variables inside of the template)

Start flask development server

$ export FLASK_ENV=development
$ flask run

You should get a response like this in the terminal:

❯ flask run
 * Environment: development
 * Debug mode: on
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

You'll now be able to access the website at localhost:5000 or 127.0.0.1:5000 in the browser!

*Note: The portfolio site will only work on your local machine while you have it running inside of your terminal.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

Visuals

Inspiration

https://www.figma.com/file/xvevtcKbVCcdJ2yi86aov3/portfolio-page?node-id=0%3A1

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