Building a Portfolio with Laravel and TailwindCSS

When I started building my portfolio, I wanted something clean, fast, and modern — something that reflected my skills as a developer. Laravel’s backend structure paired with TailwindCSS’s utility-first approach gave me exactly that.

In this article, I’ll walk you through the architecture behind this website, the components I created, and some decisions that helped me keep everything simple, reusable, and scalable.

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1. Why Laravel for a Portfolio?

Laravel offers a beautifully structured MVC framework with Blade templates, routing, controllers, and extremely clean syntax. For a personal portfolio, it might feel "too much", but the truth is: it gives you the flexibility to scale your site into something bigger — blogs, admin panels, APIs, or even client dashboards.

"Your portfolio shouldn’t just show your work — it should *be* an example of your work."

2. TailwindCSS + Blade Components

Tailwind helps keep the design consistent. By mixing Tailwind with Blade components, I created reusable UI pieces: cards, sections, buttons, forms, layouts.

Example of a reusable component:

<x-button type="primary">
    Read More
</x-button>
                

3. Interactive SVG Animations

To add personality, I used lightweight SVGs combined with Tailwind animations and CSS transitions. This keeps performance high while giving the site a modern and dynamic feel.

4. Final Thoughts

This portfolio is more than just a showcase of projects — it's a foundation I can keep expanding. And the best part? Laravel + TailwindCSS makes every new page, feature, or component easy and enjoyable to build.

If you're thinking of building or upgrading your portfolio, I absolutely recommend this stack.

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