This portfolio

Context & objective

Epitech project T-ENT-500: build a portfolio that presents my projects, my progress over the year and my experience, accessible, responsive and published automatically on GitHub Pages.

What I built

• A static, multi-page site generated by Astro from Markdown files: adding a project means adding one file.
• A Lab page that shows live metrics from my homelab through my own API, and still works when the homelab is offline.
• Automatic deployment with GitHub Actions on every push.

Challenges

• Staying useful offline. The Lab page shows live metrics, but it still has to work when the homelab is down.
• A safe public API. Publishing homelab metrics without exposing my network.
• Starting over. I dropped an early React version and rebuilt from my own HTML and CSS site, as a multi-page Astro project.

What I learned

• Astro and content files. Static generation means adding a project is just adding one Markdown file.
• CI/CD. Every push builds and publishes the site, with no manual step.
• Accessibility and SEO. Contrast, heading structure and keyboard use have to be checked, not assumed.
• Writing about my work. Explaining a project clearly is a skill of its own, as hard as building it.