A Minor Studio

I built this website in part to practice modern cloud deployment and to learn GraphQL. The site was designed and built by me, and remains under development.

It took me a little while to wrap my head around GraphQL versus the REST API I am familiar with. Throughout this project I have come to appreciate the granularity of control that GraphQL gives me, and am excited to keep using it in future projects.

I chose to deploy the site on AWS rather than Netlify, Heroku, Github pages or something similar because I am currently teaching myself AWS and continous cloud deployment, and would prefer to work in an environment that is similar to something I would see in a large-scale deployment scenario.

This site features:

• Custom design and styles
• A unique scrolling menu treatment
• Custom svg icon component system
• Hand-built animations

This site was built with:

• Gatsby/React
• GraphQL
• MDX