How should I approach building a personal portfolio/blog website?

[Ashvith10]

I have previously created a personal portfolio in SvelteKit where I was able to make use of both SSG and SSR using prerender. I wish to have some part of the blog use JavaScript for theming and simple animation (like hamburger menu, page transition, etc), but I also want the blog part (which will probably use Markdown) to be transpiled to HTML. Would appreciate discussions on what tools and libraries I should go with.

[Tao-VanJS]

FWIW, we have the tool and library that convert MD/HTML strings into valid VanJS statements. You can refer to the "HTML/MD to VanJS" page of VanJS website.

[Ashvith10]

@Tao-VanJS thank you for responding. I was looking for a list of tools that I should be looking into, but after a little bit of research here and there, I'm assuming that Mini-Van is what I'll be needing, alongside a server-side framework?

You've also mentioned convertor - does it pre-compile to Markdown while building, or will this be done on-the-go?

[Tao-VanJS]

Hi @Ashvith10,

The converter library you mentioned can convert a markdown string into valid JavaScript code that calls VanJS to build the corresponding DOM tree. Thus it's appropriated to be used at the build-time of your application.

[sirenkovladd]

oh, this is a very interesting discussion, I've asked myself this question many times

As a result, I realized that the most convenient option for me is to use Bun.macros for SSR / SSG
and just reuse the components for CSR where needed

[sirenkovladd]

This repo is still just a draft, but you can take a look here
https://github.com/sirenkovladd/rss-notification