Updating my website's tech stack in 2025

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Tamagui

So, along with the decision to use Typescript and start a codebase from scratch, I also decided that for once I was going to save some time and use one of those shiny new primitive libraries. I did not really want a complete set of UI components, but rather some primitives that worked out of the box but were also easily customizeable. In my last React Native project, I had worked with Tamagui and I loved it, I also really like the components provided in Hero UI (formerly known as Next UI), so I was going for something with the same visual style, but lighter.

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Tailwind CSS

One of the fads that I have never indulged in for the past few years was the Tailwind CSS fever. To me, this was just another Bootstrap waiting to be replaced by a more modern, more complete and lighter version of itself. And over the years, I've noticed that some component libraries would often indicate in their documentation that they recently migrated away from styled-components. Looking into it, I soon discovered that I would be facing the same decision.

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Hashnode

The other page was a list of my blog posts that were posted in Hashnode, fetched using Graph QL using Hashnode's API. The posts would then be shown when the user navigated to /post/ , after triggering another request to Hashnode's API. I also built my own solution for i18n and theming and relied on styled-components to do most of the CSS heavy lifting and customization.

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Create React App

My website's previous iteration was built in 2021. It was bootstrapped using (the now deprecated) Create React App and it took approximately 2 months to build. The home page included a bunch of photos that I had taken myself of my desk and keyboard as background for several sections and it included most of the information on the website. In the middle of the page I put the SkillsTerminal (which also features in the current version), which provided visitors with a familiar and mobile-ready UI which included my tech skills, aswell as a bit of information on my work and project history.

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