Bag Printing UK - bagprinting.co.uk
Time to completion: 2 months
Bag Printing is a website built for Bonza Print LLP in the UK. The specialise in tote bag printing and canvas bag printing. They offer a huge range of personalised and promotional bags, all of which can be printed with your business' logo or custom design. They are a family run business based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, with 18 years of experience.
This brief for this site was that they wanted a clean and easy to navigate site that would allow them to showcase their printed bag products. They wanted to be able to add new products and categories easily and to be able to update the content themselves using a CMS. They also wanted to be able to add new pages and blog posts as and when they needed to.
Technologies used:
Technical Summary
The Website
The customer facing website was built using the frontend Vue JS framework NUXT 3. Because Nuxt 3 comes with built in SSR (server side rending), the initial page load time feels lightening fast as a fully rendered HTML page is sent to the browser. We also made use of the Nuxt native component <NuxtLink>, which allows for the prefetching of components and payloads of linked pages, making navigation around the site feel almost instant. The site was styled with a mixture of custom and off the shelf tailwind css components. The site is hosted on Netlify.
CMS
The CMS (content management system), so that the staff can update products, categories and images, was also built with Nuxt, with the API routes being proxied to the custom built back-end API. The CMS was also hosted on Netlify.
API
As the data was needed in both the CMS and the website, we built a RESTful API using express.js on top of node. Drizzle ORM was used for managing the schemas and accessing the data. The MySQL database was set up and self hosted on a small Hetzner VPN instance. The API was hosted on the Digital Ocean App Platform.
Media Storage
We used Digital Ocean's 'Spaces' solution to serve the images for the website and CMS. This allows for faster page load times.
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