Portfolio

A fullstack monorepo for a personal portfolio and blog with a backoffice.
Built with NestJS and Next.js, deployed on AWS with zero-downtime CI/CD.

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Stack

Layer	Tech
Frontend	Next.js 16, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn/ui, Zustand, Tanstack Query/Table
Backend	NestJS 11, GraphQL, REST, TypeORM
Database	PostgreSQL 17
Storage	MinIO (local) / AWS S3 (prod)
Infra	AWS ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB — Terraform
CI/CD	GitHub Actions (OIDC)
Package manager	pnpm 10 workspaces

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Getting Started

Requirements: Node.js ≥ 20, pnpm ≥ 10, Docker

1. Clone and install dependencies

git clone https://github.com/chawkitariq/portfolio.git
cd portfolio
pnpm install

2. Copy environment files

cp packages/api/.env.example packages/api/.env
cp packages/web/.env.example packages/web/.env

3. Start infrastructure

docker compose up -d

MinIO Console: http://localhost:9001

• username: minio
• password: minio123

4. Start the apps

pnpm start

Service	URL
API	http://localhost:3000
Web	http://localhost:3001

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Admin Backoffice

Navigate to /admin — unauthenticated users are redirected to /sign-in.

• JWT is stored in localStorage and automatically attached to every request
• CRUD posts with a Tiptap rich-text editor
• S3 image upload

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Infrastructure

All resources are managed with Terraform:
ECR, ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB, ACM, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch, IAM OIDC.

cd terraform
terraform init
terraform apply -var-file=terraform.tfvars

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CI/CD

Pushing to main with changes under packages/api/** or packages/web/** triggers a GitHub Actions workflow that:

1. Builds the Docker image
2. Pushes it to ECR
3. Redeploys the ECS service with zero downtime