A portfolio is always good to have, as it demonstrates your skills and capabilities, and allows you to advertise yourself and your services. At the same time, what kind of projects would be good to develop and show in your portfolio?
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E-commerce website and/or application - you demonstrate a range of skills, including database schema design, pagination, use of APIs (including various payment APIs), authentication and security, etc
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Clone websites - for examples websites replicating major sites such as Netflix, Instagram, Amazon, etc - shows that you consider how major sites are designed and built
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Weather app - a relatively more simple project, but demonstrates good use of API
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Parallax scrolling website - a recent and trending technique for designing websites, which entails background images moving past a camera, slower than the movement of the foreground images, which creates a 3D effect