How to Use GitConnected to Make an Awesome Portfolio Site

I came to a very sad realization recently, my portfolio website was a mess. A few months ago, I purchased a domain name, threw a few components of React code together with some mediocre CSS, hosted it online, put my feet up and waited for the offers to come pouring in. To be honest, I don’t think I even looked at it for two months after creating it, and when I finally did, I came to this shocking realization. Not only was the site a mess, but it had no backend. If I wanted to update any projects or info, I had to go into the code and find and replace it myself.

I began scouring the web for tips and found countless tutorials and youtube videos promising me the best portfolio site if I followed their simple steps. None of these really appealed to me, but what I did find was GitConnected. GitConnected is an application that is a one stop shop for your developer resume. When creating your profile it generates a resume for you, but that’s not even the best part, when you create your profile it automatically generates an API of all of your information. So gone are the days of searching for all of your relevant links and copying and pasting them into your portfolio, only to realize weeks later you made some changes you forgot to insert. GitConnected automatically updates data in your API as you change it on your profile, giving you something like this:

Then in your code, all you have to do is fetch from your custom url and add the information as you please.

Now not only is your code cleaner and easier to read, but if you decide to change your name or add a skill, it is automatically added to your site!