All You Need to Know About How to Create a React JS Portfolio Project

Nowadays, if anyone wants to practice any programming language, they must practice it by creating Projects that can help them increase their knowledge about the language. 

  • React is a JavaScript library that is used to build mobile and web applications fast and interactive. It is an open-source, reusable component-based front-end library of JavaScript. 
  • React is a combination of HTML and JavaScript. It provides a robust and opinionated way to build modern applications.  It handles the view layer for web and mobile apps and also allows developers to create reusable UI components. 
  • React is the most popular front-end JavaScript library in the field of web development. It is used by large, established companies and newly-minted startups alike (Netflix, Airbnb, Instagram, and the New York Times). 

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Let's Create the Portfolio Project using React JS:

Step 1: The First thing that we will do is, we are going to create a folder on the Desktop or where you want the code to be written, there create a folder named Portfolio-app, and then open the editor and then open this folder.

Step 2: Now, let's open the terminal and write a command to create a react app,

Open the terminal and write a command npx create-react-app portfolio-app. 

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Step 3: Let's Install React Router dom and sass, React Router dom is used to route between pages, and Sass is a preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into Cascading Style Sheets.

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Step 4: Let's work on this Portfolio Project from Scratch. Let’s start working on the Header part. We will be using sass in this project and also components.

import { Close, MenuOutlined } from '@material-ui/icons'

import React, { useState } from 'react'

import { Link } from 'react-router-dom'

import './styles/Header.scss'

const Header = () => {

    const [active,setActive] = useState(false);

    const showMenu = () => {

            setActive(!active)

    }

    return (

        <div className='header'>

                    <div className="header__logo">

                        <h1>Simplilearn</h1>

                    </div>

            <nav className={active ? 'navbar active' : 'navbar'}>

                <ul>

                    <div className="closed">

                        <Close className='close' onClick={showMenu}/>

                    </div>

                    <li>

                        <Link to='/'><b>Home</b></Link>

                    </li>

                    <li>

                        <Link to='/'><b>About</b></Link>

                    </li>

                    <li>

                        <Link to='/'><b>Portfolio</b></Link>

                    </li>

                    <li>

                        <Link to='/'><b>Pages</b></Link>

                    </li>

                    <li>

                        <Link to='/'><b>Blog</b></Link>

                    </li>

                    <li>

                        <Link to='/contact'><b>Contact</b></Link>

                    </li>

                </ul>

            </nav>

                    <div className="changer">

                        <MenuOutlined className='menu' onClick={showMenu}/>

                    </div>

                    </div>

    )

}

export default Header

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Step 5: We will add the SCSS for the styling.

.header {

    width: 100%;

    display: flex;

    align-items: center;

    position: absolute;

    z-index: 1;

}

.header__logo {

    margin-left: 1rem;

}

.navbar {

    margin: 0 auto;

}

ul {

    display: flex;

   li {

       list-style: none;

       margin: 1rem;

       a {

           text-decoration: none;

           text-transform: uppercase;

           color: #000;

           &:hover {

               border-bottom: 3px solid red;

           }

       }

   }

}

.changer {

    display: flex;

    margin-right: 1.555rem;

    .menu {

        cursor: pointer;

        margin-right: 1rem;

        display: none;

    }

}

.closed .close{

    display: none;

}

@media (max-width:850px) {

    .header {

        justify-content: space-between;

    }

    .navbar {

        display: none;

        transition: 1s ease;

    }

    .navbar.active {

        display: flex;

        flex-direction: column;

        align-items: center;

        position: fixed;

        inset: 0;

        background: rgb(253, 234, 234);

        transition: 1450ms ease;

    }

    ul {

        margin: 0 auto;

        align-items: center;

        flex-direction: column;

        margin-top: 1rem;

       li {

           margin-block: 2rem;

           a {

               font-size: 20px;

               color: rgb(40, 36, 36);

               font-weight: bolder;

           }

       }

    }

    .changer {

        .menu {

            display: block;

        }

    }

    .closed .close{

        display: block;

    }

    .header__logo {

        margin-left: .445rem;

    }

}

@media (max-width:360px) {

    ul {

        margin: 0 auto;

        align-items: center;

        flex-direction: column;

        margin-top: 1rem;

       li {

           margin-block: 2rem;

           a {

               font-size: 20px;

               color: rgb(40, 36, 36);

               font-weight: bolder;

           }

       }

    }

    .changer {

        .menu {

            display: block;

            margin-right: 0;

        }

    }

}

Output: Header

Now, let's start with the Main Page.

import { Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter } from '@material-ui/icons'

import React, { useState } from 'react'

import './styles/Main.scss'

import anu from './assets/anubhav.png'

const Main = () => {

    return (

        <div className='main'>

            <div className='main__container'>

                <div className="main__content">

                    <div className="text">

                            <p>Hey There !</p>

                            <h1>I am Anubhav</h1>

                            <p>Front End Developer  & Designer</p>

                            <div className="icons">

                                <Twitter className='icon'/>

                                <Instagram className='icon'/>

                                <Facebook className='icon'/>

                                <LinkedIn className='icon'/>

                                <Pinterest className='icon'/>

                            </div>

                    <div className="buttons">

                        <button>See Me</button>

                        <button>Hire Me</button>

                    </div>

                    </div>

                </div>

                <div className="main__img">

                    <img src={anu} alt="" />

                </div>

            </div>

        </div>

    )

}

export default Main

.main {

    min-height: 100vh;

    max-width: 100%;

    background-color: #f8efef;

    position: relative;

    &::before,&::after {

        content: '';

        position: absolute;

        left: 0;

    }

    &::before {

        clip-path: polygon(100% 33%, 0% 100%, 100% 100%);

        background:linear-gradient(45deg,rgba(216, 46, 8, 0.085),rgba(62, 7, 189, 0.126));

        width: 100%;

        height: 100%;

}

}

.main__container {

    display: flex;

    height: 90vh;

    justify-content: space-between;

    align-items: center;

    position: relative;

}

.main__content {

    margin-left: 3.445rem;

}

.text {

    line-height: 55px;

    p {

        color: rgb(157, 155, 155);

        text-transform: uppercase;

        font-size: 22px;

    }

    h1 {

        font-size: 50px;

        text-transform: uppercase;

    }

}

.icons {

    display: flex;

    .icon {

        margin-top: 1rem;

        margin-right: 1.4rem;

        font-size: 35px;

        cursor: pointer;

        color: rgb(157, 155, 155);

        &:hover {

            color: red;

        }

    }

}

.main__img {

    clip-path: circle(50% at 50% 57%);

    cursor: pointer;

    img {

        background:linear-gradient(45deg,rgb(216, 46, 8),rgb(62, 7, 189));

    }

}

.buttons {

    button {

        padding: 15px 40px;

        margin-top: 2rem;

        margin-right: 1rem;

        background: linear-gradient(25deg,rgba(1, 60, 210, 0.753),rgb(255, 72, 6));

        color: #fff;

        border: 1px solid #fff;

        cursor: pointer;

        border-radius: 5px;

        text-transform: uppercase;

        font-weight: bolder;

    }

}

.main__container.active {

    background: red;

}

@media (max-width:1200px)

{

    .text {

        white-space: nowrap;

        line-height: 30px;

        p {

            font-size: 14px;

        }

        h1 {

            font-size: 30px;

        }

    }

    .buttons button {

        padding: 8px 20px;

    }

    .icons {

        margin-right: 1rem;

        .icon {

            font-size: 25px;

        }

    }

}

@media (max-width:600px) {

    .main__content {

        margin-left: 0;

    }

    .main__container {

        text-align: center;

        flex-direction: column-reverse;

        justify-content: center;

    }

    .main__img img {

        width: 250px;

    }

    .text {

        h1 {

            font-size: 23px;

        }

        p {

            color: #000;

            font-size: 11px;

        }

    }

    .icons{

        margin-left: 1.5rem;

    .icon {

        color: firebrick;

    }

}

}

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      Fig: Output

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Step 6: Here, we will create a Sections page in which we add the experience and the skill set that the candidate has. Also, we are adding the pop-up functionality as mentioned below. 

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Section page 

import React from 'react'

import './styles/Section.scss'

import anu2 from './assets/profilephoto.jpeg'

const Section = () => {

    return (

        <div className='section'>

            <div className="section__container">

                <div className="section__img">

                    <img src={anu2} alt="" />

                </div>

                <div className="section__content">

                    <h1>Anubhav Sharma</h1>

                    <p>Experience in frontend and backend development</p>

                    <p>JavaScript development</p>

                    <p>Java </p>

                    <p>Python</p>

                    <p>Professional UI and UX Designer</p>

                </div>

            </div>

        </div>

    )

}

export default Section

.section {

    width: 100%;

    min-height: 100vh;

    background:linear-gradient(45deg,rgba(11, 141, 228, 0.77),rgba(226, 87, 36, 0.562));

    overflow: hidden;

}

.section__container {

    display: flex;

    justify-content: space-between;

    align-items: center;

    margin: 2.5rem;

}

.section__img img{

    margin-top: 1rem;

    width: 520px;

    height: 600px;

    padding: 10px;

    object-fit: cover;

}

.section__content {

    margin: 0 auto;

    line-height: 50px;

    text-align: center;

    h1 {

        color: #fff;

        text-transform: uppercase;

        font-size: 55px;

        margin-bottom: 2.125rem;

    }

    p {

        font-weight: bolder;

        color: #fff;

        text-transform: uppercase;

        border-bottom: 1px solid green;

        cursor: pointer;

        box-shadow: 2px 2px 15px green;

        padding: 6px;

        margin-block: 7px

        ;

        &:hover {

            transform: scale(110%);

            transition: 250ms;

            color: firebrick;

        }

    }

}

@media (max-width:1100px) {

    .section__container {

        flex-direction: column;

        margin: 2.5rem;

    h1 {

        font-size: 25px;

        margin-bottom: 0rem;

    }

    p {

        font-size: 26px;

        margin-block: 25px;

        padding: 25px;

        font-weight: normal;

    }

    }

    .section__img img{

        width: 720px;

        height: 410px;

        padding: 5px;

        object-fit: cover;

    }

}

@media (max-width:735px) {

    .section__img img{

        width: 300px;

        height: 220px;

        padding: 2px;

        object-fit: cover;

    }

    .section__container {

        flex-direction: column;

        margin: 1.5rem;

    h1 {

        font-size: 25px;

    }

    p {

        font-size: 10px;

        margin-block:5px;

        padding: 5px;

    }

    }

}

@media (max-width:335px) {

    .section__container {

        margin: 0;

    h1 {

        font-size: 20px;

        margin-bottom: 0rem;

    }

    p {

        font-size: 12px;

        margin-block: 0px;

        padding: 0px;

        font-weight: normal;

        box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px green;

    }

    }

    .section__img img{

        width: 250px;

        height: 150px;

        padding: 2px;

        object-fit: cover;

    }

}

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   Output: Section page 

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Step 7: Now, In last what we will be doing is we will add the contact page in which if anyone wants to connect with you, they can write a mail to you. 

import React from "react";

import {ArrowBack } from '@material-ui/icons'

import './styles/Contact.scss'

import { Link } from 'react-router-dom'

const Contact =() => {

    return (

        <div className="contact">

            <Link to ='/ ' >

                <ArrowBack className ='arrow'/>

            </Link>

            <div className="inputs">

                <h1>Contact Me</h1>

                <input type="text" placeholder="Name"/>

                <input type="text" placeholder="Email"/>

                <input type="text" placeholder="Message" className="message"/>

                <button>Send</button>

            </div>

        </div>

    )

}

export default Contact

.contact{

    width: 100%;

    height: 100%;

    background-color: white;

}

a{

    color: gray;

    text-decoration: none;

}

.inputs{

    width: 60%;

    height: 80%;

    margin: 0 auto;

    display: flex;

    flex-direction: column;

    align-items: center;

    justify-content: center;

}

h1{

    color: rgb(82, 76,76)

}

input{

    width: 100%;

    align-items: center;

    padding: 20px;

    outline: none;

    border: none;

}

.message {

    padding-bottom: 10rem;

}

button{

    padding: 10px 40px;

    background: none;

    cursor: pointer;

    margin-top: 1rem;

    border: 1px solid blue;

    color: rgb(255, 102, 128);

    text-transform: uppercase;

}

@media(max-width:550px) {

    .inputs{

        width: 80%;

        input{

            padding: 15px;

        }

    }

}

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Anubhav is a Research Analyst. He enjoys working on dynamic projects where he can learn new things. He is responsible and diligent. Being a resident of Jammu, he loves nature and exploring new places.

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