React Portfolio Website Tutorial From Scratch

In this tutorial, we will learn how to build a React Portfolio Website from scratch. We will use React JS to create an animated background for our portfolio website.

Part 1: Building the React JS Animated Background

For the first part of this tutorial, we will focus on building the animated background using React JS. The animated background will make our portfolio website more engaging and visually appealing.

Step 1: Set up a new React project

We will start by setting up a new React project. If you don’t already have Node.js and npm installed, you can download and install them from here.

Once you have Node.js and npm installed, you can create a new React project by running the following command in your terminal:

npx create-react-app portfolio-website

This will create a new React project called “portfolio-website” in your current directory.

Step 2: Install the required dependencies

Next, we need to install the required dependencies for our animated background. We will use the react-particles-js library to create the animated background.

You can install the react-particles-js library by running the following command in your terminal:

npm install react-particles-js

Step 3: Create the animated background component

Now that we have installed the required dependencies, we can create the animated background component for our portfolio website. We will create a new file called Background.js and add the following code:


import React from 'react';
import Particles from 'react-particles-js';

export default Background;


Step 4: Add the animated background to the homepage

Finally, we can add the animated background component to the homepage of our portfolio website. We will open the App.js file and add the following code:


import React from 'react';
import Background from './Background';

export default App;


With these steps completed, you should now have a React project with an animated background on the homepage. In the next part of this tutorial, we will focus on designing and building the rest of the portfolio website.