Scouting report
Jamaican frontend dev building polished Next.js and Vue side projects
assessed from open-source footprint
Leithon is a Kingston frontend developer with a modern TypeScript stack (Next.js, Vue, Drizzle ORM, NextAuth, Tailwind) and a portfolio site. The headline original is a NY Times Spelling Bee clone built in Next.js (1 star), plus a reusable React modal component. Work is original (low fork ratio) and current-tech, though traction is light (1 star, 8 followers) and projects are not actively maintained.
Authorship & open source
What they build
Industry experience
- Web & CMS
- Security & Identity
- Productivity & SaaS
Signal breakdown
1
top repo 1
9
18% forks
8
12.1 yr
1
Quiet
100% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on spelling-bee-nextjs
- 20 merged pull requests
- Original builder — 9 of their own repositories
- Frontend focus with Backend
- Domain experience in Web & CMS & Security & Identity
- Core stack: TypeScript, Vue, JavaScript
About
Skills
- TypeScript
- Vue
- JavaScript
- Drizzle Orm
- Next Auth
- Next.js
- React Spring
- Tailwind
Featured work
Spelling Bee Nextjs
A NY Times Spelling Bee clone built with NextJS
- TypeScript
- Drizzle Orm
- Next Auth
- Next.js
- React Spring
by Leithon English
React Modal
A simple modal component in React
- TypeScript
- React
- Vanilla Extract
by Leithon English
Vercel Cloud App
A clone of the Vercel dashboard to test out some ui features
- TypeScript
by Leithon English
Sanity Gatsby Portfolio 2
Portfolio with Gatsby
- JavaScript
by Leithon English
Portfolio V1
A simple portfolio based on https://brittanychiang.com design
- TypeScript
by Leithon English
Bankee App
Simple NextJs app from a sketch template
- TypeScript
by Leithon English