LDBennett Portfolio
Personal developer portfolio and interactive resume built with Astro, structured around Feature-Sliced Design.
Summary
This portfolio is the project here. I wanted to make a personal developer portfolio and interactive resume built with Astro. I structured it around Feature-Sliced Design and Domain-Driven content collections. It contains all of my recent work along with a nice visualization of my resume and work history.
Introduction
I wanted to try and create a website using a Static Site Generation and I figured my portfolio would be the perfect project to try it out! I always knew that I would need to showcase my work post-Libsyn, so the concept of a portfolio itself was nothing new. Two unique things I knew I wanted to add in were the recently played games and recent dice rolls. I was able to easily create the routes in the other apps (DigitalNinjaLee and TabulaRollsa in order to fetch the data I needed to showcase it in the header.
Architecture
When using Astro, I still wanted to keep the Feature-Sliced Design and Single Responsibility Principle in mind while creating this portfolio.
| Layer | Path | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | shared/ | Reusable UI primitives, assets, global styles, simple utilities |
| 2 | entities/ | Core business concepts and their data representations |
| 3 | features/ | Explicit user actions yielding business value |
| 4 | widgets/ | Composed layout blocks combining entities and features |
| 5 | pages/ | App routes composed entirely of widgets and features |
I really enjoyed how easy it was to work with MDX and JSON files for content. It’s definitely a tool I would want to use for simple websites in the future.
Infrastructure
The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages as a fully static build. Astro outputs to dist/ via pnpm build and Cloudflare picks that up directly — no server, no runtime, no cold starts. The build runs on Node 20.
Because everything is pre-rendered at build time, the only dynamic pieces are the two live data cards in the hero. Those hit external APIs at runtime in the browser — one from DigitalNinjaLee.com for the currently playing game, and one from TabulaRollsa.com for recent dice rolls.
Style
I wanted to keep a minimalistic look and feel for the portfolio. While simple, I also wanted to have some features that would make it look modern. While I know glassomorphism and whatnot can be considered to be overused, I thought it would still be nice to go with that look and feel. The big thing I like about it was the Desktop hover effects on the cards and the slight light behind the cursor.
One of the cool little features I added was the preview eye on each Project card. When you hover over it, you can see what it looks like. I opted to just make this a screenshot, but an actual live preview may be nice in the future?
The experience was also just cards at first (similar to Projects), but I opted to make it look like a vertical timeline of my experience. I feel like that gives a good sense of the timeline of my experience.
The last big additions were the D&D rolls and the now playing card. I feel like these give my page a little more about my identity and personality.
Screenshots
Desktop
Mobile
Mobile