Dylan Reeves

FrancoCrea is an artisan furniture designer and manufacturer. My role on the project was to work with the designer to achieve great animation and transitions on a WordPress-based website. Since it was a website for a designer, pixel perfection was necessary to mimic the level of precision in the FrancoCrea furniture design.

Lisnic, now a job board, was a platform enabling people to find mentorship from industry-leading business owners.

I was involved in setting up the back-end business logic to handle the relationships between users and the billing system and wiring up all the front-end components into the Next.js and Apollo front-end app.

While working at Avenue, I was tasked with building the agency's website in Gatsby and WordPress. In the early days of Gatsby, it was difficult to preview static websites, so I created a solution to hydrate a static Gatsby preview template with WordPress data from the API on the fly.

I worked on a team to help build this content-heavy, static site. I built the back end using WordPress and ACF, while the front end was built in Gatsby. I helped set up the main structure of the site and processed the WordPress API data to be statically rendered. I also integrated the back-end data into Algolia and built the front-end filtering and search components using the Algolia API. I also integrated our in-house hydration system (which I built) to preview content in the React site before it was rendered.