When I originally wrote this I used Google's Firebase Cloud Functions and has since changed, this post has been slightly updated to reflect that

When I started developing my website I never thought I'd be using a back-end API service, I mean what's the need? Surely a portfolio should be pretty simple and at minimum contain pages such as about, projects and contact?

For a while now, I've been spending a lot of my spare time working on projects and getting to grips with new tech - including Node.js. I created an opportunity for myself to showcase what I've learnt.

I've developed a API Node.js back-end service to do the following:

• Projects (GitHub)
  • Get all repos with basic stats
  • Get repo readme
• Blog (DEV.to)
  • Get all posts with basic stats
• Email (Nodemailer)
  • Send contact email

You can find the repo here. I have a config file that's included in gitignore for smtp settings, github token and twilio dets. If helpful I can include the layout of this here at some point? Anyway...

I'm still learning Node.js and next I want to tidy the code base up i.e. add controllers, services and routes. Thank you for reading and any feedback is welcome. 😇