borhawn.dev — Personal Portfolio & Content Platform
Next.jsReactTailwindCSSSupabasePostgreSQLTypeScriptQuillHTMLCSSJavaScriptAI-Assisted Development
A custom full-stack portfolio and content management platform built around an original bento-box design system, featuring light/dark mode, a Supabase-powered backend, and a fully integrated admin panel for managing all site content.
Key Features
- Custom bento-box portfolio design system
- Fully responsive layout (mobile, tablet, desktop)
- Light mode & dark mode support
- Custom portfolio website
- Admin dashboard
- Project management system
- Blog & post management system
- Page content management
- SEO management system
- Code snippets section
- Contact information & external links management
- Image upload system
- Rich text editing with Quill
- Dynamic content rendering
- Supabase database & backend integration
- Tailwind CSS styling system
Challenges
- Translating a bento-box UI design into a fully dynamic web application
- Maintaining design consistency across responsive breakpoints
- Implementing light/dark mode across all components
- Building a scalable content management system
- Managing SEO dynamically without code changes
- Structuring reusable content blocks for different page types
- Connecting a complex frontend system to a Supabase backend
- Preserving original design intent while modernizing the stack
Solutions
- Next.js application architecture with component-based structure
- Tailwind CSS for utility-first styling and responsive design
- Supabase backend with PostgreSQL for scalable data management
- Custom admin panel for full content control
- Theme system for light/dark mode handling
- Dynamic routing and content-driven pages
- WYSIWYG editing with Quill for blog and page content
- Centralized SEO configuration stored in database
- Modular bento-box component system for UI consistency
Design Evolution
- Original concept & bento-box design created by me
- First implementation built manually with HTML, CSS & JavaScript in 2023
- Early iterations focused on layout experimentation and visual structure
- Design later refined and modernized using Claude Code assistance
- Transitioned from static layout to fully dynamic component system
- Rebuilt as a production-ready Next.js application with Tailwind CSS
- Original design direction and visual identity fully preserved
