PortUI 🖥️✨
A lightweight, Docker-powered portfolio/landing-page generator—fully customizable via YAML! Showcase your projects, skills, and online presence in minutes.
🚀 You can also pair PortUI with JavaScript for sleek, web-based desktop-style interfaces.
💻 Example in action: CyMaIS.Cloud (demo)
🌐 Another live example: veen.world (Kevin’s personal site)
✨ Key Features
- Dynamic Navigation
Create dropdowns & nested menus with ease. - Customizable Cards
Highlight skills, projects, or services—with icons, titles, and links. - Smart Cache Management
Auto-cache assets for lightning-fast loading. - Responsive Design
Built on Bootstrap; looks great on desktop, tablet & mobile. - 184 Languages
Every ISO 639-1 code, browser-negotiated, RTL-aware, with machine translation for your own content. - YAML-Driven
All content & structure defined in a simpleconfig.yaml. - CLI Control
Manage Docker containers via theportfoliocommand.
🌐 Quick Access
- Local Preview:
http://127.0.0.1:5000
🏁 Getting Started
🔧 Prerequisites
- Docker & Docker Compose
- Basic Python & YAML knowledge
🛠️ Installation via Git
-
Clone & enter repo
git clone <repository_url> cd <repository_directory> -
Configure Copy
config.sample.yaml→config.yaml& customize. -
Build & run
docker-compose up --build -
Browse Open http://localhost:5000
📦 Installation via Kevin’s Package Manager
pkgmgr install portui
Once installed, the portui CLI is available system-wide.
🖥️ CLI Commands
portui --help
buildBuild the Docker imageupStart containers (with build)downStop & remove containersrun-devDev mode (hot-reload)run-prodProduction modelogsView container logsdevDocker-Compose dev environmentprodDocker-Compose prod environmentcleanupPrune stopped containers
🔧 YAML Configuration Guide
Define your site’s structure in config.yaml:
accounts:
name: Online Accounts
description: Discover my online presence.
icon:
class: fa-solid fa-users
children:
- name: Channels
description: Platforms where I share content.
icon:
class: fas fa-newspaper
children:
- name: Mastodon
description: Follow me on Mastodon.
icon:
class: fa-brands fa-mastodon
url: https://microblog.veen.world/@kevinveenbirkenbach
identifier: "@kevinveenbirkenbach@microblog.veen.world"
cards:
- icon:
source: https://cloud.veen.world/s/logo_agile_coach_512x512/download
title: Agile Coach
text: I lead agile transformations and improve team dynamics through Scrum and Agile Coaching.
url: https://www.agile-coach.world
link_text: www.agile-coach.world
company:
title: Kevin Veen-Birkenbach
subtitle: Consulting & Coaching Solutions
logo:
source: https://cloud.veen.world/s/logo_face_512x512/download
favicon:
source: https://cloud.veen.world/s/veen_world_favicon/download
address:
street: Afrikanische Straße 43
postal_code: DE-13351
city: Berlin
country: Germany
imprint_url: https://s.veen.world/imprint
childrenenables multi-level menus.linkreferences other YAML paths to avoid duplication.
🌍 Languages
Every ISO 639-1 language — all 184 two-letter codes — has a URL, a display
name in its own script and a writing direction. The interface ships translated
for 29 of them; the rest fall back to English string by string until a
catalogue is filled. / serves the best match for the visitor's
Accept-Language header, /<code>/ forces one, and a switcher in the navbar
lists them all. The ten right-to-left languages get dir="rtl" and Bootstrap's RTL
stylesheet automatically.
Translations live in two catalogues, both keyed by the English source string:
| Path | Tracked | Holds |
|---|---|---|
app/i18n/ui/<code>.yaml |
yes | Interface strings. Shipped for 29 languages; English is the source and has no file. |
app/i18n/content/<code>.yaml |
no | Your config.yaml prose, generated per deployment. |
A string with no catalogue entry falls back to English, so a half-filled catalogue degrades instead of breaking.
Fill the content catalogues from a LibreTranslate
instance — set LIBRETRANSLATE_URL in .env, then:
make i18n
This fills the interface strings of the languages that ship no catalogue as well. Existing entries are never overwritten, and a string the shipped catalogue already covers is never requested, so corrections you make by hand survive later runs.
name, title, description, text, warning, info and subtitel are
translated; url, link_text, identifier and icon classes never are.
A machine cannot tell the menu label "Pictures" from the brand "Mastodon", so
list the brands in app/i18n/keep.txt, one per line — they are then stored as
themselves in every language and cost no request:
# Strings utils/i18n_sync.py stores as themselves instead of translating.
Mastodon
Nextcloud
freelancermap.de
Add one-off entries with --keep Foo Bar, or point somewhere else with
--keep-file. A protected string never replaces an entry you already wrote by
hand.
🚢 Production Deployment
- Use a reverse proxy (NGINX/Apache).
- Secure with SSL/TLS.
- Swap to a production database if needed.
Because every page carries a canonical URL and 184 hreflang alternates, two
details of the proxy setup now matter:
- Set
TRUSTED_HOSTSin.envto your public hostname(s), comma-separated. Left empty, the app reflects whateverHostheader arrives into its canonical,hreflangand redirect URLs — so a shared cache in front of it can be made to store a redirect pointing somewhere else. - Have the proxy send
X-Forwarded-Proto. Without it the app cannot know TLS terminated upstream and every canonical URL claimshttp://.X-Forwarded-Hostis deliberately not trusted; setHostto the public name instead.
📜 License
Licensed under GNU AGPLv3. See LICENSE for details.
✍️ Author
Created by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach
Enjoy building your portfolio! 🌟
