A while back I stumbled on this pretty great YouTube channel by Hyperplexed that shows how to recreate some amazing things on the web. There were 2 videos in particular that piqued my interest. They were based off some effects present on the KPR and poppr sites. So I thought I would try recreating them but I wanted to make something in the process too. Not knowing what to make, I made another digital CV of sorts.
Well it started off as just trying to recreate the 2 effects presented by Hyperplexed, then I wanted to combine them. Did that and I was soon finding other ideas to include in this project. Other things I saw in the 2 websites and also using some things I had been meaning to try out like Firebase. So I used Svelte to build the SPA. I initially hardcoded the data I wanted to present on the site but then firgured that since I am always doing something related to my data why not have it pulled from somewhere? That's when I thought of giving Firebase a try. Using the Realtime Database, Storage and Firestore Database services, I was able to build my site. It would have probably been a lot easier if I had just used SvelteKit and Firebase (the FKit stack as coined by Fireship), but I didn't really plan this and was just adding things as I went along.