Hey, I'm Ben! 👋

Passionate about digital experiences that are seamless, memorable and useful! I'm curios by the intersection of design and front-end development, and enjoy the UI/UX aspects of building applications ...that's not to say I don't get a kick out of building a robust RESTful API!

Technology:

Latest Project:

Colorator 🎨 - React | Laravel

what

A colour palette builder for designers. Craft, customise, save, and share palettes. Appreciate and inspire by liking other users' creations.

why

Explore building a full-stack application with users, authentication and the need for innovative UI/UX.

how

React for front-end, Laravel to create a RESTful API managing users, palettes, and likes in a relational MySQL database. Sanctum handles user authentication. Tested with Laravel's phpUnit.

Ben Peake's Projects

benpeake

Config files for my GitHub profile.

code-wars-solutions

a log of my code-wars solutions - JavaScript

collection

A practical application for learning OOP principles, implementing CRUD operations, and working with a MySQL database using SQL queries. Built with vanilla PHP

colorator-app

Dynamic react front-end for colour palette tool and sharing platform - uses a custom hook to manage current palette state and history - dnd-kit for shuffling palette composition - react-colorful for color picking logic + heaps more code enables a user to tailor a color palette to their liking!

coloratorapi

a RESTful API to serve my color palette front-end - numerous routes enables usual CRUD operations - sanctum is implemented to handle authentication via tokens - Tested using PHPUnit