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13 Best Open-source Portfolio Templates for Designers and Developers in 2025

Hazem Abbas

Dec 27, 2024 — 8 min read

Creating a portfolio is an important step for designers and developers looking to highlight their skills and work. It’s more than just a collection of projects—it’s your personal introduction to potential clients and collaborators.

But building a portfolio site from scratch can be overwhelming, especially when juggling deadlines or exploring new tools.

That’s where open-source portfolio templates become a game-changer. These templates are not only free but are also thoughtfully designed with features that help you create a polished, professional website.

Many of them are built using Astro, a versatile framework we’ve covered extensively in our tutorials. We’ve also used Astro in several projects for our clients, and it consistently delivers excellent results.

Why is Astro such a popular choice among developers and designers?

Astro’s efficiency and flexibility make it a great option for building fast and responsive websites. Its design ensures your site loads quickly, even on slower connections, and its unique approach helps deliver excellent performance scores.

For those looking to share their work online, this translates to a website that feels smooth and professional to visitors.

Hosting your Astro-built portfolio is easier than ever, thanks to platforms like Netlify and Vercel. These services allow free development and deployment, making them perfect for anyone working on a budget.

They also take care of essential features like security and performance optimization, ensuring your portfolio is fast and reliable.

With a variety of styles and features, there’s something here for every designer and developer. Let’s dive in and explore how these templates can help you build the portfolio you’ve always envisioned.

In this article, we’ve curated 13 of the best open-source portfolio templates for 2025, covering a range of styles and features.

1- Bento-like Portfolio

Astro-bento-portfolio is a minimal bento-like (almost) single page portfolio website made in Astro. You can check the demo here.

Features

Modern and Minimal bento-like, sleek UI Design
All in one page (almost)
Fully Responsive
Performances and SEO optimizations
Ready to be deployed on Netlify or Vercel
Blog
RSS support (your-domain/rss.xml)
Cool 3d globe

2- Dante

If you are looking for more than a portfolio, we recommend Dante, It is an uncluttered minimal Astro.js + Tailwind CSS theme designed for those who appreciate clarity and minimalism. for demo check here.

Features

✅ Dark and light color mode
✅ Hero section with bio
✅ Portfolio collection
✅ Pagination support
✅ Post tags support
✅ Subscription form
✅ View transitions
✅ Tailwind CSS
✅ Mobile-first responsive layout
✅ SEO-friendly with canonical URLs and OpenGraph data
✅ Sitemap support
✅ RSS Feed support
✅ Markdown & MDX support

2- AstroMax

AstroMax is a pretty cool landing page for your agency or as a personal website. It include an amazing layout and design for your projects, interactive project slider, services, and get quote section.

The demo is pretty amazing, check here.

3- Esquelete CV

This one is a free, easy-to-use CV template with a clean design. Just fill in your details and you're ready to go! It works if you like accordion design. (Demo)

You can set pages easily using Mwrkdown, and configure your cards with simple modification.

4- Minimal

Minimal is a super minimal theme for you or your agency (demo).

5- Portfolio Website - Astro

This open-source portfolio template, can be good for developers, freelancers who wanna list their skills, job experience and projects online in a simple page format.

It supports dark mode, and can be easily modified and edited using /src/data/info.ds file.

The starter template is a highly customizable, and it is fast compared to other starters.

6- Astro Art Portfolio

Minimalistic Art showcase built with Astro and connected with Notion API. Its features include:

Tailwind CSS with dark/light theme enabled
Github workflow + Dependabot setup
Typescript out of the box
Gallery powered by photoswipe
File compression with astro-compress
💯 Lighthouse score
Icon supports with astro-icon

7- Astro Erudite

astro-erudite is an opinionated, no-frills static blogging template built with Astro, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui. Extraordinarily loosely based off the Astro Micro theme by trevortylerlee.

You can check the demo here.

8- Milky-Way

This is a minimalist portfolio template with a whimsical charm, designed to showcase your creativity in an elegant digital space. It offers the best Lighthouse score we have seen yet. (Demo)

Features

Simple and clean design, perfect for showcasing your work.
Responsive layout for seamless viewing across different devices.
Fast and efficient, thanks to the Astro static site generator.
Easy to customize with CSS and straightforward HTML structure.

9- Rishi Bharadwaj Sai: Personal-Portfolio

This is more than just a portfolio site/ template by Rishi Bharadwaj Sai, it includes a timeline of all projects during Rishi Bharadwaj Sai academic and self-education journey, that you can copy and make it your own.