mitchelltrout.com — portfolio v2

The source of my personal site. Cinematic-dark, animated, and led by IT work rather than by a projects grid.

Stack: Astro 5 · TypeScript · Vitest

A rebuild of a v1 Express/EJS site, moved to Astro for static output with islands only where interactivity is genuinely needed — so most pages ship no JavaScript at all.

Two pieces have real logic behind them and are unit-tested: the contact form handling and a live status section. The résumé PDF is generated from source by a build script rather than being a binary someone has to remember to re-upload, so the site and the PDF can't drift apart.

npm install
npm run dev # localhost:4321
npm test
npm run build

Live at mitchelltrout.com.

1. Create src/content/projects/<slug>.md (copy an existing file for the frontmatter shape).
2. Drop screenshots in src/assets/screenshots/ and list them in the frontmatter with alt text.
3. npm run build — the schema validates everything.

1. Pull, npm install, npm run build
2. Copy .env.example → .env, fill in Brevo credentials
3. Run deploy/start.bat (serves on PORT, default 3005)
4. Caddy: existing mitchelltrout.com block already points at 3005 — one CSP addition, see deploy/caddy-changes.md
5. Rollback: stop this, start the old portfolio app again