How to best approach a frontend problem when being a backend developer? The short answer to this question is I do not know, and I really don't think it exists one unique solution to this. It all depends on the degree of frontend exposure during previous projects.

Since I always have been developing 'behind the scenes' systems, I have rarely been considerate about how my systems would look like from a non-developer point of view. As long as the frontend developers are able to integrate up against the backend system in a neat way, and as long as they always get the correct data and response, my job is done! I had to reset this way of thinking when developing this portfolio, since I now need to consider the web page design. I have always been bad at visual design, so this has been quite a journey!

This article was merely ment to be a short introductory blog post, and I will look into writing a post later on focusing on the technical aspects of how to write your own portfolio (or at least how I wrote mine).