Building This Site: Nuxt, Rust, and a Tiny 3D Sun

Why build instead of buy

There are plenty of website builders, but building my own site is the point: every piece of this stack is something I want to understand deeply.

The stack

• Frontend: Nuxt 3 with Vue 3, Tailwind CSS, and TresJS for the little sun spinning on the home page.
• Backend: Rust with Axum and Tokio, SQLx against PostgreSQL, Redis for caching.
• Edge: Cloudflare in front, nginx terminating TLS with an origin certificate.

What I learned

Server-side rendering plus a small JSON API is a sweet spot for a personal site: fast pages, good SEO, and a real backend to grow into.

This is a placeholder article — real posts are on the way.