How to make a developer portfolio with Django REST and React
9 min readFeb 10, 2020
Part 1: Creating the Django REST API
Why am I redoing my portfolio?
My current portfolio, kristianroopnarine.com , is just a basic website made with HTML and Bootstrap. I made that website a couple of months ago to showcase some of my data analysis projects and scripts I made using Python. However, since then I’ve learned a lot more than my portfolio is showing. Just to summarize the progress I’ve made:
- I’ve made a mock website for my current job at the New York Hall of Science using Django to help the Exhibit Experience team automate and store data for daily operations in Design Lab.
- I’ve created games such as Snake and Galaga both in Python and JavaScript.
- I’ve created animations to visualize different sorting algorithms in both in Python and JavaScript with React.
- Updated my twitter bot using AWSNS to send text messages to myself containing tweets of free machine learning resources.
- Currently I’m working with DotDot through the Designers-in-Residence program at the New York Hall of Science to create a virtual reality game using Unity.
I’ve made some progress since the last time I created my portfolio and I think it’s…