Portfolio — Buddhaprakash Patil

Personal site for backend-engineering work: case studies, projects, skills. The site itself is a portfolio piece — a Spring Boot API with a static frontend, built the way production services are built.

Architecture

frontend/   → GitHub Pages (static, works standalone)
backend/    → Spring Boot 3 API on Render free tier (Docker)
              /api/profile    profile + case-study JSON
              /api/contact    rate-limited contact form
              /api/visitors   visit counter
              /swagger-ui     live OpenAPI docs
              /actuator/health

The frontend bakes all content in and treats the API as progressive enhancement — Render's free tier cold-starts (~1 min), and the site must never look broken while that happens.

Run locally

# backend
cd backend && mvn spring-boot:run     # → localhost:8080/swagger-ui

# frontend — any static server
cd frontend && python -m http.server 5500

Deploy

1. Push to GitHub → deploy-pages.yml publishes frontend/ to GitHub Pages.
2. Connect the repo on render.com → render.yaml builds backend/Dockerfile.
3. Update API constant in frontend/index.html with the Render URL.
4. Set ALLOWED_ORIGINS env var on Render to the GitHub Pages origin.