Building this blog

Hi there! 👋

I wanted somewhere to come and brain dump every now and then. Quite often I'll work on little side projects and I thought it would be useful to talk about interesting things I've come across whilst building.

A bit about me - I'm a software dev based in the UK that mainly works in web development. I've worked at a couple of different companies along the way. One of which for a very long time and the other for about a year now.

This site is built using Nuxt - a Vue.js meta-framework. I've been writing applications in Vue for about 4 years now and I love it.

One thing I was excited to explore with this project is the ever-growing list of Nuxt Modules. Here's a list of the ones I'm using (so far):

• Nuxt Content for writing content (these blogs) in Markdown. I didn't want to put in anything too heavy like a CMS for the time being, so Nuxt Content was exactly the tool I needed. It's all just Markdown.
• Nuxt UI for the design system. Nuxt UI has a bunch of components that are easy to use and look great. I've been thinking about splashing out on the pro license.
• Nuxt Fonts for loading the fonts. This was really cool DX. Literally all I did was install the module and specify the font in my tailwind.config.ts. That's it. Behind-the-scenes the module is doing all the heavy lifting for stuff like downloading the font files. It also does some pretty neat stuff like using fontaine to avoid nasty things like cumulative layout shift.
• Nuxt SEO to avoid all the boring SEO stuff that I don't want to deal with. Lazy, I know.

The Nuxt Module ecosystem has grown massively since I last built a production site in it. This took me probably a couple of evenings to get completely up and running from scratch which was really nice.

The plan is to keep working on this site and adding more features as I go. I just wanted to get something out the door for now.

Cheers!