lukeonline - src/content/blog/021025.md

--- title: lukeonline - React Edition desc: Rewriting the site in React date: 2025-10-02 slug: "021025" --- I've not been doing an awful lot with this website over the last few months. My placement work takes up the larger part of the week, and to be completely honest I find little energy to do any of my own stuff on the weekends. That being said, my placement HAS given me the oppurtunity to learn a fair bit about front-end frameworks, and I decided it was finally time to draw a line over the messy, inconsistent, inaccessible site this once was and re-build it from the ground up using something a bit-more modern, like React, for example. The previous site had a fair few issues. My stylesheet was one I had built up over the course of about six years, with chunks of it copied-and-pasted from previous projects. Naming conventions were inconsistent. Heaps of duplicate markup. Unfinished/abandoned areas. The list goes on. Following the migration, things suddenly feel a whole-lot fresher. I've even tweaked some of the components to look a little flatter and easier on the eyes. I also tweaked the photo browser. Keyword search felt a bit pointless, so it's gone. I still need to implement sorting, but for now it's still fully functional, and I'm happy with how it's turned out. Eventually I plan to implement something like tailwindcss to make things even cleaner, as I do find myself leaning slightly into less-organised-than-would-be-preferable stylesheets, but it's still a huge improvement, and I'm really loving working on expanding my knowledge of more maintainable and up-to-date front-end frameworks. While I'm confident that the site looks and feels sufficient, I'm near-certain there will be a few issues popping-up here and there. If you do spot something, [let me know](/about#Contact) about it! So long!