revamping first website

This is a full-stack personal website built to demonstrate production-grade frontend and backend patterns: schema-first APIs, async data aggregation, feature flags, versioned content, and i18n-aware rendering.

Yaritza Perez — Personal Portfolio

https://yaritzaperezportfolio.vercel.app/

Tech Stack

• Frontend: Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Next.js API Routes (gateway), Java Spring Boot (business logic)
• Testing: Jest, ts-jest
• Deployment: Vercel (Next.js), Railway (Java service — coming soon)

Architecture

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  → Next.js (frontend + API gateway) — Vercel
    → Java Spring Boot (business logic) — Railway (coming soon)

Features

• Work highlights and skills fetched from API routes
• Payment retry simulator with failure handling
• International currency formatter (en-US, de-DE, ja-JP, en-GB, pt-BR)
• Contact page
• Jest integration tests for API routes

Running Locally

You need both services running simultaneously.

Next.js:

npm install
npm run dev

Java Spring Boot (in a separate terminal):

cd ../payments-service-demo
mvn spring-boot:run

Then visit http://localhost:3000

Running Tests

npm test

Planned

• Deploy Java service to Railway
• Add projects page
• Engineering writeups page