Personal blog - Next.js 15 | Tailwind CSS 4 | shadcn/ui

What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

I was a pure CSS or die kind of guy. I'm proud of trying tailwindcss, I really liked it and with shadcn it just got easier to build the design system and the theme switch. This will be my standard from now on. Next time I would set properly better @utility and @components classes in tailwind.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

Learning tailwindcss principles and setting up the themes and knowing the purpose for each css variable. Once I understood that, the theming was easier, since almost everything was changed in the globals.css for once and there were a few exceptions that I had to specify for dark mode for specific components.

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

Any feedback is welcome. This project was to try different stuff and make it a fullstack app, like using the built-in Next.js API routes to handle the backend server, authentication (for a future blog manager inside this project), fetching posts from a database, using an ORM, it was a while since I don't do much backend stuff and this was a nice refresher.

Think I could get suggestions on how to implement i18n. My mother language is Spanish (Mexico), and since I'm going to be actually using this page, I would like to have support for English and an additional button (like the theme switcher) to select between different languages.