Personal Site

Aim

My personal website. It’s built to provide general info about my work.

Technology

In its very first version in 2015, it was built using NextJS and Bootstrap. I chose those technologies to achieve several goals:

• As a backend developer, I’m not very comfortable with CSS so Bootstrap, as a component-based front-end library, is a first-class choice to get a responsive web application.
• The website had (and still has) to be indexable.
• I wanted to be more comfortable with ReactJS and Server Site Rendering.
• No back-office section needed!

This approach was successful, I was able to deploy it in a few work-days. But the maintenance was not so easy because of the huge number of JS libraries (proverbial NPM dependency-hell) and their daily security updates. Furthermore, the rapid evolution of ReactJS and NextJS itself requires continuous up-to-date knowledge. In the end, new content’s creation required writing a brand-new HTML page each time.

So, in 2025, I rewrote the site changing the base framework used for page composition. Hugo allowed me to:

• Drastically simplify contents’ handling.
• Deployment process.
• Site speed even on old mobile devices.