Personal-Website

Development repo for my personal resume website using React and Ant Design. Check it out at curthenrichs.github.io.

For this project I am using Ant Design, primarily for the clean, simplistic visual style it offers.

Local Build

To build and test locally, first clone this repo and navigate to the root project directory. Then run:

npm install

Next to run the development server:

npm start

Github Deployment

I am using the gh-pages package to deploy the static website to Github pages. To deploy, simply run:

npm run deploy

Deployment Troubleshooting

npm run deploy only pushes the build to the gh-pages branch; GitHub's internal "pages build and deployment" workflow then publishes it to the live site. If the live site stays stale after a deploy:

1. Check the repo's Actions tab for the latest "pages build and deployment" run. A failure at the "Deploy to GitHub Pages" step with "Timeout reached, aborting!" (while the build and artifact upload succeed) is a transient GitHub-side outage, not a problem with this repo. Observed 2026-07-02: three consecutive timeouts that self-resolved roughly 8 hours later with no config changes.

2. Retrigger publishing without rebuilding by pushing an empty commit to gh-pages:

   git fetch origin gh-pages
   git push origin $(git commit-tree "origin/gh-pages^{tree}" -p origin/gh-pages -m "Retrigger Pages deployment"):refs/heads/gh-pages
   

3. To confirm what is actually live, compare the hashed bundle name in build/static/js/main.<hash>.js against the one referenced by the live site's HTML, and check curl -sI https://curthenrichs.github.io/ for the last-modified header (it reflects the last successful publish, not the last attempt shown in Settings -> Pages).

4. If failures persist beyond a day, verify Settings -> Pages still points at gh-pages / root, then escalate to GitHub Support with the failed run links.

Updating

This project is structured such that I should be able to merely update the content files. I broke the content down by section on the webpage.

• Main Page
  • biography
    • Biography (markdown)
  • skills
    • customIcons
    • And add icons to icon directory
  • career
    • Engineer (markdown)
    • Research (markdown)
    • Internship (markdown)
  • projects
    • Authr (markdown)
    • Coframe (markdown)
    • ITER (markdown)
    • Hobby (markdown)
  • publications
  • contact

If adding projects then simply update the projects content and add a markdown page with the writeup.

All images are provided in public and should be added there.

Icon SVGs should be added to the icon handler component and the Ant Wrapper written in customIcons (within content directory).

Acknowledgements

Thanks to this repo hard refreshes are managed when deployed on Github Pages.

Thank you Ant Design for the amazing framework. I really love the design language that is provided out of the box.

And thanks to all other technical libraries and code developers / teams who have made this possible. I truly am standing on the shoulders of giants.

Notes

My resume and cover letter design files are in the root's docs directory. This is to make my life easier when updating my profile in the future.