Portfolio Template

A Next.js 16+ personal portfolio template built around a signature WebGL flow shader, a magnetic morphing portrait, Lenis smooth scroll, and a calm black-and-white design system. Designed for individual designers and engineers who want a brand-ready scaffold with a distinctive look on day one.

Features

• ✅ Next.js 16+ with App Router
• ✅ TypeScript (strict mode)
• ✅ Tailwind CSS v4 with token-driven theming
• ✅ Dark Mode via next-themes (class-based) with view-transition reveal
• ✅ Motion via motion/react with reduced-motion support
• ✅ WebGL Flow Shader — aspect-correct circular fade baked into the fragment, theme-aware bg sync
• ✅ Lenis Smooth Scroll with anchor-link integration
• ✅ Portrait Morph — hover-driven webp swap with magnetic cursor follow
• ✅ Polaroid Strip, Skills, Stack, Experience, Education — co-located content sections for an /about route
• ✅ Projects Grid — dribbble-style mockup cards with hover lift and image zoom
• ✅ Contact Card — single-click copy email with hover content swap, embedded shader
• ✅ Animated Pill Nav — spring-animated active indicator, hydration-safe theme toggle
• ✅ Site Frame — fixed top/left/right rails with rounded inner corners
• ✅ SEO Ready — metadata, Open Graph, Twitter cards, sitemap, robots
• ✅ Accessibility — skip links, focus rings, ARIA labels, prefers-reduced-motion guards
• ✅ Edge Compatible — no Node-only APIs

Sections Included

• Nav — Fixed pill nav with spring-animated active indicator and hydration-safe theme toggle
• Hero — WebGL flow shader backdrop, two-line headline, morphing portrait, magnetic CTAs
• Projects — Grid of dribbble-style project cards with hover lift, image zoom, and external links
• About — Polaroid strip, skills grid, interactive Matter.js stack chips, expandable experience timeline, education list
• Contact Card — Embedded shader, copy-to-clipboard email, secondary social CTAs
• Page Backdrop — Site-wide flow shader, mobile-attenuated, baked radial fade to background
• Skip-to-Content — Keyboard-first accessibility entry point

Getting Started

Install dependencies

npm install

Run development server

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Scripts

Command	Description
npm run dev	Start development server
npm run build	Build for production
npm run start	Start production server
npm run lint	Run ESLint
npm run lint:fix	Fix ESLint errors
npm run format	Format code with Prettier
npm run format:check	Check code formatting
npm run typecheck	Run TypeScript type checking

Project Structure

├── app/
│   ├── about/                       # About route
│   ├── projects/                    # Projects route
│   ├── globals.css                  # Design tokens, frame, project-card styles
│   ├── layout.tsx                   # Root layout with providers, nav, backdrop
│   ├── page.tsx                     # Home page
│   ├── robots.ts                    # Dynamic robots.txt
│   ├── sitemap.ts                   # Dynamic sitemap
│   ├── icon.svg                     # Favicon
│   └── apple-icon.svg               # Apple touch icon
├── components/
│   ├── about/
│   │   ├── education.tsx            # Education list with bordered logo squares
│   │   ├── experience.tsx           # Expandable timeline with fade-mask collapse
│   │   ├── polaroid-strip.tsx       # Tilted polaroid photos with dotted backs
│   │   ├── skills.tsx               # Skills grid
│   │   └── stack.tsx                # Matter.js physics-driven tech chips
│   ├── contact/
│   │   ├── contact-button.tsx       # Click-to-copy email button
│   │   ├── contact-card.tsx         # Shader-backed contact card
│   │   └── contact-card-ctas.tsx    # Social CTAs
│   ├── hero/
│   │   ├── hero.tsx                 # Hero layout and copy
│   │   ├── hero-ctas.tsx            # Magnetic primary/secondary CTAs
│   │   └── portrait-morph.tsx       # Hover-swap portrait with magnetic follow
│   ├── layout/
│   │   ├── nav.tsx                  # Pill nav with theme toggle
│   │   ├── page-backdrop.tsx        # Site-wide shader backdrop
│   │   ├── providers.tsx            # Theme + smooth-scroll providers
│   │   ├── skip-to-content.tsx      # Skip link for a11y
│   │   └── smooth-scroll.tsx        # Lenis smooth-scroll wrapper
│   ├── projects/
│   │   └── projects.tsx             # Projects grid
│   ├── shaders/
│   │   └── shader-flow.tsx          # WebGL flow shader (raw OGL)
│   └── ui/
│       ├── dotted-pattern.tsx       # Shared dotted texture
│       └── motion-primitives.tsx    # FadeIn, ScaleUnblur entrance helpers
├── lib/
│   ├── config.ts                    # Site config
│   ├── metadata.ts                  # SEO metadata utilities
│   └── motion.tsx                   # Motion components & hooks
└── public/
    ├── josh.webp                    # Default portrait
    ├── josh_wave.webp               # Hover portrait
    ├── linkedin.svg                 # Social icon
    ├── x.svg                        # Social icon
    └── site.webmanifest             # PWA manifest

Customization

1. Update Site Configuration

Edit lib/metadata.ts to update:

• Site name, description, and URL
• Social media handles
• Keywords and authors

The default siteConfig.url is https://example.com — replace it with your production URL before deploying so OpenGraph and the sitemap emit correct absolute URLs.

2. Replace Brand & Portrait

• Swap public/josh.webp and public/josh_wave.webp with your own default + hover portraits. Keep both files the same dimensions and aspect ratio for a clean morph.
• Update headline, eyebrow, and subtitle copy in components/hero/hero.tsx.
• Update social handles and email in components/contact/contact-card.tsx and components/contact/contact-card-ctas.tsx.

3. Update About Content

All about-page content is co-located in its component file — there is no separate content directory.

• components/about/polaroid-strip.tsx — image paths and captions
• components/about/skills.tsx — skill list
• components/about/stack.tsx — tech logos and physics chips
• components/about/experience.tsx — roles, companies, dates, descriptions
• components/about/education.tsx — schools, programs, dates

4. Update Projects

Edit the project array in components/projects/projects.tsx. Each entry includes a title, description, image (dribbble mockup or your own), and external link.

5. Replace Icons

Replace the following files with your brand assets:

• app/icon.svg — Favicon (32x32)
• app/apple-icon.svg — Apple touch icon (180x180)
• public/og-image.png — Open Graph image (1200x630)

6. Tune the Shader

The flow shader (components/shaders/shader-flow.tsx) is used by both the page backdrop and the contact card. Key knobs (all exposed as props with sensible defaults):

• colorLowA, colorHighA — palette stops in linear RGB
• flowSpeed — [x, y] flow vector
• iterations — domain-warp iteration count (up to 24)
• scale — domain scale
• brightness — output multiplier
• fadeCx, fadeCy, fadeRx, fadeRy — aspect-correct circular fade center and radii. The fade is baked into the fragment shader and reads --background from CSS so theme changes are picked up automatically via a MutationObserver on <html>.

The shader:

• Caps DPR at min(devicePixelRatio, 1.25) for ShaderFlow
• Sizes to host container via ResizeObserver
• Pauses via IntersectionObserver when offscreen and on visibilitychange
• Uses highp precision; renders a single opaque draw (no CSS mask layers)

7. Add Routes

// app/contact/page.tsx
import { createMetadata } from "@/lib/metadata";
import type { Metadata } from "next";

export const metadata: Metadata = createMetadata({
  title: "Contact",
  description: "Get in touch.",
  path: "/contact",
});

export default function ContactPage() {
  return <main id="main-content">...</main>;
}

Design System

Colors

• --background / --foreground — Page background and text
• --muted / --muted-foreground — Subtle surfaces and secondary text
• --border — Hairline rails and dividers
• --ring — Focus rings
• --frame — Site-frame color (matches --background)

The palette is strict black and white. No accent or semantic color hues are used.

Typography

• Sans: Geist Sans
• Mono: Geist Mono
• Serif: Fraunces (used selectively for display headlines)

Layout Conventions

• Headlines: maximum two lines, no italic, no em-dashes
• Site frame: fixed top + left + right rails with two top corner cutouts (desktop only; hidden under 850px)
• Card hovers: project cards use a single resting + single hover shadow tier with translate-y lift
• No backdrop-blur (except the experience collapsed-fade)
• Cursor: pointer on all clickable nav and CTA items

Accessibility

The template includes:

• Skip-to-content link
• Visible focus rings on all interactive elements
• ARIA labels on toggles, social links, and the contact button
• prefers-reduced-motion guards on the theme toggle view-transition
• Shaders pause when offscreen and on tab hide
• Proper heading hierarchy (single <h1> per page)
• WCAG 2.1 AA contrast compliance in both themes

Performance

• WebGL context cleanup on unmount via WEBGL_lose_context
• Single mount-once shader effect; uniforms updated via refs
• Shaders pause when offscreen (IntersectionObserver) and on tab hide (visibilitychange)
• DPR capped to keep shading cost bounded on retina displays
• Page-backdrop fade is baked into the fragment shader (single opaque draw, no mask layers)
• Matter.js is dynamic-imported inside the stack section
• Lenis smooth scroll runs on a single rAF loop
• Edge-compatible runtime

Notes

• The next.config.ts images.remotePatterns allows images.unsplash.com and cdn.dribbble.com for the polaroid and project mockups respectively.
• The portfolio uses a single @/ path alias.
• The project image cards use a disclaimer comment at the top of components/projects/projects.tsx noting that dribbble mockups are placeholders to be replaced with your own work.

License

This template is free to use in personal and commercial projects. You may not resell or redistribute the template itself.