Hidroval

What I learned

• To read a webpack.config since I had to manage my own.
• Server Side Rendering with React and a lot about express in general.
• How to use loopback 3 and some of the customizations.
• Things about handling a REST API.
• The pain of database migrations and how careful you should be with it.
• I trimmed the app as much as I could because I wanted to be fast, removed a lot of unused dependencies and switched to lighter ones when needed.
• Code Splitting and a little on how webpack chunks work.
• Image storing and optimizations with loopback.
• React Suspense back then was even more experimental.
• Testing the app with throttling to see what was blocking a good first paint.
• SEO and using react-helmet.
• Redux (with SSR) and handling async code.
• Dashboard creation.
• To better calculate my time/money ratio since it took me more than a year and I rewrote it three times.
• To try to find a team since that was a really big project for a single developer

What it is?

It's a website for a valve factory in my hometown, Guadalajara, the requirements of the client were a website were they can control its web catalog and they wanted it to be fast. I started creating my own SSR implementation back then there weren't a lot libraries to handle SSR (or I didn't like the existing ones)