Building a GitHub Contribution Graph with Next.js Server Components
When building a portfolio, showing your GitHub activity tells a story about your consistency, the technologies you work with, and how you balance personal and professional projects. In this guide, I walk you through building a production-ready GitHub contribution graph using Next.js 14 Server Components and TypeScript.
Why Server Components?
Section titled “Why Server Components?”Unlike client-side rendering, Server Components allow us to fetch data directly on the server, keeping our GitHub API token secure and improving initial page load performance. This is especially important for portfolio sites where first impressions matter.