My Portfolio

This website is a practical expression of my skills—a way to demonstrate what I can build, not just talk about it. It also serves as a personal log of my growth and learning over time.

This project serves as a complete web project with a modern and modular architecture, built using contemporary web development technologies.

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🛠 Tech Stack

Front-end

• TypeScript: A strongly typed, compiled programming language that builds on JavaScript.
• React: A popular open-source library for building user interfaces.
• React-Redux: Manages application state and actions in a predictable way.
• React-Markdown: Renders Markdown content as React components.
• React-i18next: Handles internationalization with a flexible JSON-based approach.
• Axios: A promise-based HTTP client for making API requests.

Back-end

• Strapi v4: A headless CMS with built-in support for internationalization.
• PostgreSQL: A powerful open-source relational database.
• ExpressJS: A minimalist Node.js web framework for building APIs.
• TypeScript: Ensures type safety across the back-end codebase.
• pg: A PostgreSQL client for Node.js to run SQL queries.
• pg-promise: Simplifies connection and transaction management with PostgreSQL.
• cors: Enables Cross-Origin Resource Sharing.
• express-ip: Retrieves the client’s IP address to help prevent multiple submissions from the same user.

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🌐 Deployment & Hosting

• The front-end, Strapi CMS, and Express API are all hosted on Heroku.
• The domain name antoninmarxer.com was registered via Namecheap.
• Cloudflare is used to secure the website, including providing SSL certificates.