Dale Nguyen Portfolio Website

An Nx monorepo powering dalenguyen.me — built with AnalogJS (Angular 20) and NestJS.

Live sites

• Main site — https://dalenguyen.me (blog-app on Vercel): home, blog, resume, learn, bucket list
• Blog SSR — the same app runs as a Nitro node-server on Cloud Run for on-demand SSR + API routes

Tech stack

• Nx 21 workspace (with Nx Cloud) managed with pnpm 10
• AnalogJS 2 (Vite + Vitest) — the main site/blog, Angular 20 + Angular Material + Tailwind CSS
• NestJS 10 for the API
• Blog content authored as static markdown in apps/blog-app/src/content/
• Node >=20

Project structure

apps/
  blog-app    AnalogJS — the main site (dalenguyen.me): home, blog (static md),
              resume, learn, bucket list. SSG on Vercel + SSR/API on Cloud Run.
  api-nest    NestJS API (deployed as a Google Cloud Function)
  saas        Angular SaaS app
libs/
  portfolio   home / shell / resume / shared UI libraries (consumed by blog-app)
  angular     Shared Angular UI + utilities
  api-nest    NestJS domains / shell / infrastructure / usecases
  openai      OpenAI helper library
  saas-libs   Shared SaaS libraries
  shared      Framework-agnostic shared code (e.g. shared/ui)

See docs/project-structure.md for the library boundary conventions.

Getting started

pnpm install

Development server

npm start serves the default project (blog-app).

nx serve blog-app       # http://localhost:3000 (AnalogJS — the main site)
nx serve api-nest
nx serve saas

Build

nx build <app>          # e.g. nx build blog-app

Test & lint

nx test <project>       # unit tests (Jest / Vitest)
nx lint <project>
nx e2e <app>-e2e        # Cypress / Playwright
nx storybook <project>  # Storybook

Use nx affected -t build|test|lint to run only what changed against origin/dev.

Deployment

The dev branch is the production branch. Pushing to dev deploys to Vercel via its Git integration (static SSG — every route prerendered), serving dalenguyen.me.

Deploy the blog's SSR node-server to Cloud Run manually:

nx run blog-app:deploy  # build-server → gcloud builds submit → gcloud run deploy

See apps/blog-app/CLAUDE.md for the dual-deploy (Vercel SSG + Cloud Run SSR) details.

Blog posts

Posts are markdown files in apps/blog-app/src/content/. Frontmatter fields: title, slug, date, draft (optional). A route is prerendered only if its path is listed in prerender.routes in apps/blog-app/vite.config.ts — posts are added there automatically from the content directory.

Generate a new app / library

nx generate @nx/angular:library my-lib --buildable --publishable
nx generate @nx/nest:app my-api

# NestJS building blocks
nx g @nx/nest:module path/module-name
nx g @nx/nest:service path/service-name

# Publishable npm package
nx generate @nx/node:library name --importPath @dalenguyen/name --publishable

Contribution

Contributions are welcome. Please read the contribution guideline.