Searching for inspiration

So I’ve spent some time today searching for inspiration for a portfolio site I’m planning to build, I wanted to find some great looking React sites and I have had plenty of luck finding them. I feel pretty confident I want my site's front end to be in react and I would love to have some sleek animation to go with it. However, I noted with some of the more fancy examples there was not much consideration for UX. The reason I note this is it’s a trap I could see myself falling into. I want to be conscious of this when building my site, as many of the examples I found had amazing visuals, however, the navigation was really confusing.

I really want to create something that’ll stand out from the crowd and try something new (if I can). I can't deny my excitement about making this site, yes I know its fairly self indulgent but I really want to echo my passion for what I do.

So here are some of the qualities (despite some being obvious) I want to keep in mind when building my portfolio site.

• I want the navigation to be straight forward and easy to read
• I want to showcase my code my best code
• I want links to all my social media (Linked in, Twitter, Github, my blog and contact details)
• I would love to have some sleek animation to showcase my creativity (however not too much, I want…