Frontend Mentor - Audiphole Ecommerce Website Solution
This is a solution to the Audiophile Ecommerce challenge on Frontend Mentor.
Table of contents
Overview
Screenshot
My Process
Built with
- NextJS (React Framework for SSR)
- TailwindCSS (Utility-first CSS framework)
- Firestore Database (NOSQL firebase dataabse)
- Cloudinary (for image storage)
What I learned
- NextJS and the power of server-side rendering (SSR). I learned about NextJS Dynamic Routing and used it to build product pages under certain cagetories. For example:
/pages/headphones/[slug].js
getStaticPaths
inside the[slug].js
files queries firebase database to find list of products and statically pre-renders the dynamic routes based on the products available. Because data is available during build time, I usedgetStaticProps
to generate the dynamic pages based onpaths
. This function runs only on server side.- I wanted to experiment with quering from multiple sources of data. Thats why all the images are stored in Cloudinary and product data comes from Firebase. I have used NextJS
next/image
Image Optimizations for faster page loading. - It was very fun building the website with TailwindCSS with mobile-first approach. There are so many images and the structure of the page change drastically depending on device screen space. I have used resized images for tablet/mobile/desktop sizes, combined with
next/image
optimizations to make laoding time faster. - NextJS provides so much more features and I would love to make more projects with this framework.
Features left to implement
- Cart to add products
- Checkout page